The force of the crash derailed six coaches and crumpled several of them, trapping dozens of people in the wreckage.
Local people helped those initially injured, but it took a team of over 200 emergency personnel several hours to cut the remaining casualties out of the train.
The train did not catch fire, and many of the people trapped in the wreckage were later rescued alive.
The crash was later determined to be the result of criminal damage to some railway signals and power lines, which meant that the passenger train failed to change track on its approach to the station, and piled into the stationary goods train on the original track.
Although the operator realized something was wrong, there was no time to contact the train and slow it down before the crash.