1957 Gambar train crash

Train collision in Pakistan Gambar Train Crash 30.7500 73.3315 type:railwaystation_region:PK inline,title September 29, 1957 Gambar Railway Station, Pakistan Okara Pakistan Karachi–Peshawar Line Pakistan Railways Train collision # Lack of signals Allowing two trains into same occupied block section 2 300 150 On September 29, 1957, a Karachi-bound express passenger train collided at full speed with a stationary oil-tanker train before midnight, at Gambar Railway Station. 300 people were killed and 150 wounded by the accident.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91238880 More Than 100 Killed In Rail Collision The Canberra Times 31 9,289 Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 October 1957 31 July 2016 1 National Library of Australia Edgar A. Haine Railroad Wrecks 1993 Associated University Presses 9780845348444 https://books.google.com/books?id=S7t8DW4iYDMC&pg=PA178 10 October 2024 Google Books 178 en2010-03-07 Trains collide in Pakistan — History.com This Day in History — 9/29/1957 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/trains-collide-in-pakistan 2024-11-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20100307222909/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/trains-collide-in-pakistan 7 March 2010 See also List of railway accidents and incidents in Pakistan References expanded Category:1957 disasters in Pakistan Category:Accidents and incidents involving Pakistan Railways Category:Railway accidents in 1957 Category:September 1957 in Asia Category:Train collisions in Pakistan