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Montparnasse derailment

Index Montparnasse derailment

The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. [1]

22 relations: Buffer stop, Caldas Novas, Canela, Rio Grande do Sul, Chemins de fer de l'Ouest, French franc, Gare de Granville, Gare Montparnasse, Granville, Manche, Hugo (film), Human: Fall Flat, John R. Taylor, Lean into It, Mr. Big (American band), Scrabbling at the Lock, Tender (rail), The Ex (band), The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Thomas & Friends, Tom Cora, Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 2-4-0.

Buffer stop

A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track.

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Caldas Novas

Caldas Novas is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Goiás.

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Canela, Rio Grande do Sul

Canela, meaning Cinnamon (or shin) in Portuguese, is a town located in the Serra Gaúcha of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Chemins de fer de l'Ouest

The Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest (CF de l'Ouest), often referred to simply as L'Ouest or Ouest, was an early French railway company.

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French franc

The franc (sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (FF), was a currency of France.

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Gare de Granville

Gare de Granville is a railway station serving the town Granville, Manche department, northwestern France.

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Gare Montparnasse

The Gare Montparnasse (Montparnasse Station), officially Paris-Montparnasse, is one of the six large Paris railway termini, in the 14th and 15th arrondissements of Paris.

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Granville, Manche

Granville is a commune in the Manche department and region of Normandy in north-western France.

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Hugo (film)

Hugo is a 2011 historical adventure drama film directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan.

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Human: Fall Flat

Human: Fall Flat is a platform-puzzle video game developed by No Brakes Games and published by Curve Digital.

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John R. Taylor

John Robert Taylor is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Lean into It

Lean into It is the second studio album by the American rock supergroup Mr. Big, released in March 26, 1991.

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Mr. Big (American band)

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Scrabbling at the Lock

Scrabbling at the Lock is the first of two albums by Dutch punk band The Ex in collaboration with avant-garde cellist Tom Cora.

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Tender (rail)

A tender or coal-car is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, or oil) and water.

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The Ex (band)

The Ex are an underground band from the Netherlands that formed in 1979 at the height of the original punk explosion.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec) is a historical fantasy comic book series first appearing in 1976 written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and published in ''album'' format by Belgian publisher Casterman, sometimes preceded by serialisation in various periodicals, intermittently since then.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is an American historical fiction novel written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic.

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Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends or Thomas the Tank Engine; also known as Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! in the twenty-second season) is a British children's television series.

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Tom Cora

Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock.

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Westinghouse Air Brake Company

The Westinghouse Air Brake Company (sometimes nicknamed or abbreviated WABCO although this was also confusingly used for spinoffs) was founded on September 28, 1869 by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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2-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and no trailing wheels.

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Montparnasse train crash, Paris-Granville Express, Paris–Granville Express.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment

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