RailPictures.Net Photo: Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) ALe 601 FS at Vado, Italy by Gianfranco Berto
 
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» Vado 
» Vado, Italy (more..)
» April 15, 1978
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A Murazze Vado (Tuscany), due to the landslide of a hill, the locomotive Espresso 572 bis, Bari to Trieste, from the south, ending derails across the tracks of the North-South. In a few moments the tragedy: out of a tunnel, piercing the rain at seventy miles per hour, the rapid "The Arrow of Laguna", with four hundred people on board, he meets another train on his line lying on the tracks. The impact is devastating. The remains of the engines disintegrated and the first coach of the fast flying in the air after a saltodi 20 meters. The carriages behind fall along the slope. the train Bari to Trieste it remains on track, still, with its load of passengers, in shock, but amazingly unharmed. Only the engine is torn apart by the collision. The four drivers die on the spot. The budget is a tragedy: 48 dead and 76 wounded. google translate sorry.
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