Biggest train fires of our times

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The Al Ayyat train disaster happened at 02:00 on the morning of 22 February 2002 on a passenger train of 11 carriages, running from Cairo to Luxor. In its fifth carriage a cooking gas cylinder exploded and created a fire which spread as the train ran. 7 of its carriages were burnt. 383 people, all Egyptian, died in the fire or were killed attempting to jump from the train.


1915 - Quintinshill rail crash in Scotland kills 227 chiefly through fire on May 22
In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy location. This becomes the greatest loss of life in any railway accident in the UK, before or since.



The Daegu subway fire of February 18, 2003 killed at least 198 people and injured at least 147. An arsonist set fire to a train stopped at the Jungangno station of the Daegu Metropolitan Subway in Daegu, South Korea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_fires#Other_fires



other train wrecks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-1950_rail_accidents