List of rail accidents (before 1880)

Suffolk, Virginia collision
Versailles train disaster
The Dee bridge after its collapse
Boiler explosion, 2 February 1850
1851 Avenwedde rail accident , 21 January 1851
Norwalk River, Connecticut
1853 Providence and Worcester head-on collision
South Devon Railway sea wall , 3 March 1855
Crash of the Jupiter , 29 May 1856
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Salisbury, 6 October 1856
Desjardins Canal disaster
Round Oak
South Bend, Indiana
Wootton bridge after the crash
Winchburgh rail crash
East Indian Railway wreck
The derailment near Birmingham
Immigrant train runs through an open swing bridge near Beloeil, Quebec .
Crash scene after the Staplehurst accident
Bray, County Wicklow
Angola, New York
The Cerhovice collision
Úvaly train derailment
Bangor, Maine, August 8, 1871
Site of the Revere, Massachusetts, train wreck, 26 August 1871
Scene of the Railroad Disaster at Meadow Brook, Rhode Island, a wood engraving from a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in Harper's Weekly , 10 May 1873. The accident occurred on 19 April 1873, at Wood River Junction.
Shipton-on-Cherwell
Lagerlunda rail accident, 1875
Ashtabula Bridge collapse
Tariffville train accident
Lithograph of the La Chapelle train collision by Paul Van Rijssel
Tay Bridge collapse