Invention and Engineering

Balvano train disaster

The Balvano train disaster occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata, when 517 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train (mostly stowaways) died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel. It was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever.

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• ▸Economic history of Scotland
• ▸El Escorial
• ▸Blast furnace

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