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1981 Chengdu–Kunming rail crash

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was dispatched from the Niri station after passing Route 221 (another train operated on the opposite direction, from Chengdu to Jinjiang). A minute later, staffs of Niri station discovered that they had lost phone contact to the next station Wusi River station when reporting the departure of route
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At 1:45 a.m., the train entered the Nainaibao tunnel at a speed of 40 km/h (25 mph). After passing the tunnel curve, the driver Wang Mingru discovered that the building near the tunnel exit had collapsed and the light reflections from the rails were missing from the Liziyida bridge. He
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Depending on the source, there were 240, 275 or 360 people killed, including four crew-members. The railway was blocked until a temporary bridge was completed on July 24. After the opening of the new Liziyida tunnel in May 1984 bypassing the gully, the temporary bridge was dismantled and the
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Distribution regularity of debris flow and its hazard in upper reaches of Yangtze River and other rivers of southwestern China, by Fangqiang Wei, Yuhong Jiang, Peng Cui and Mingtao Ding, published by Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences in 2007, Volume 12, Number 4, page
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No. 13, post office van No. 12, and passenger car No. 11 fell into the river. Passenger cars No. 10 and No. 9 crashed into the river bank. Passenger car No. 8 derailed in the tunnel and overturned outside of the tunnel exit.
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Sediment studies and management strategies in China by Zhao-Yin Wang and Bingnan Lin, published by International Journal of River Basin Management in March 2004, Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 39–50
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tried to make an emergency stop, but failed due to steep gradients of the rail before the bridge (at 14‰). As a result, the two diesel locomotives,
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province. More than 200 died in the accident while 146 were injured. It is the worst train disaster in the history of the
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occurred on July 9, 1981, when train number 442 passed the failed Liziyida bridge near
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The new Liziyida tunnel under construction next to the abandoned Nainaibao tunnel
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Nainaibao tunnel was abandoned. The bridge piers still stand today.
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At 1:41 a.m., the number 442 passenger train consisting of two
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1981 Chengdu-Kunming rail crash

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