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29 lis 2021 · This extraordinary accident occurred on October 22, 1895 at Montparnasse, then known as Gare de l’Ouest. The drive of the express train from Granville to Paris, hoping to make up time for its 131 passengers, increased the train’s speed and the air brake failed.
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it approached the station too fast and the driver's application of the train air brake was ineffective.
6 sie 2018 · Montparnasse Train Derailment in Paris (1895) via The Culture Trip. 1895, Derailment, Featured, Montparnasse, Paris, Train. At first glance, the photos look like stills from an old disaster movie or a spectacular example of theme park scenery welcoming visitors to some wild new ride.
6 mar 2022 · Accident de train de la gare Montparnasse du 22 octobre 1895, 14e-15e arrondissements, Paris, PH78193.jpg 1,909 × 2,622; 2.58 MB
L'accident de la gare Montparnasse est un accident ferroviaire français survenu le 22 octobre 1895 à la gare de Paris-Montparnasse, lors de l'arrivée du train express n o 56 desservant la ligne de Paris à Granville.
15 sie 2020 · Like something out of an old Laurel and Hardy film, this photograph depicts a wreck with the front of a train hanging out the second story of a building, a momentous hole in the wall and a shadow of rubble on the sidewalk below. The incident happened in Paris in 1895, and is known as the Montparnasse train wreck.
3 sty 2018 · These incredible photos of the wreck at Gare Montparnasse in Paris shows a very dramatic scene of a train that has crashed through the wall and partially tumbled to the street. The cause? Both mechanical failure and human error.
