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}} }} The 1981 Chengdu-Kunming rail crash occurred on July 9, 1981, when train number 442 passed the failed Liziyida bridge near Ganluo County, Sichuan province. More than 200 had died in the accident while 146 were injured. It is the most severe train disaster in the history of the People's Republic of China.〔Distribution regularity of debris flow and its hazard in upper reaches of Yangtze River and other rivers of southwestern China, by Fangqiang Wei, Yuhong Jiang, Peng Cui and Mingtao Ding, published by Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences in 2007, Volume 12, Number 4, page 619-626〕 == Accident == At 1:30 am, a mudslide occurred at the Liziyida gully, a tribute of the Dadu River. The mudslide destroyed the high, long Liziyida bridge.〔Sediment studies and management strategies in China by Zhao-Yin Wang and Bingnan Lin, published by International Journal of River Basin Management on March 2004, Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 39-50〕 At 1:41 am, the route 442 passenger train from Geliping to Chengdu dispatched from the Niri station after passing Route 221 (another train operated on the opposite direction, from Chengdu to Jinjiang). A minute later, staffs of Niri station discovered that they had lost phone contact to the next station Wusi River station when reporting the departure of route 442. At 1:45 am, route 442 entered the Nainaibao tunnel with a speed of . After passing the tunnel curve, the driver Wang Mingru discovered that the building near the tunnel exit had collapsed and the light reflections from the rails were missing from the Liziyida bridge. Wang Mingru tried to make an emergency stop, but failed due to steep gradients of the rail before the bridge (at 14‰). As a result, two Diesel locomotives, the baggage car No. 13, the post office van No, 12, and passenger car No. 11 fell into the river. Passenger car No. 10 and No. 9 crashed into the river bank. Passenger car No. 8 derailed in the tunnel and overturned outside of the tunnel exit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1981 Chengdu-Kunming rail crash」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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