Dahlerau train disaster

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Dahlerau train disaster
Accident site, showing the destroyed first coach of the passenger train.
Details
Date	May 27, 1971
Location	Dahlerau, Radevormwald, Oberbergischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	West Germany
Line	Wupper Valley Railway [de]
Operator	Deutsche Bundesbahn
Incident type	Collision
Cause	Not determined
Statistics
Trains	2
Deaths	46
Injured	25

The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on May 27, 1971, in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger train collided head-on. Forty-six people perished in the accident; forty-one were senior year pupils of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Radevormwald.^[1] It was the deadliest accident in West Germany since its foundation in 1949, surpassed after German reunification by the Eschede train disaster in 1998.