A chronology of Europe's worst rail accidents since the Clapham disaster, which claimed 35 lives in 1988.
1988 December 12th: BRITAIN - Collision between three trains at Clapham Junction, London: 35 dead, 133 injured.
1989 November 16th: ITALY - Collision near Crotona: 12 dead.
1990 February 2nd: GERMANY - Collision at Ruesselsheim: 16 dead, 86 injured.
August 20th: POLAND - Collision in the suburbs of Warsaw: 16 dead, 39 injured.
1991 October 17th: FRANCE - Collision between an overnight train and a goods train: 16 dead, 55 injured.
1992 March 3rd: RUSSIA - The Riga-Moscow express rams into a goods train: 41 dead, 16 injured.
November 14th: GERMANY - An express train rams into anoverturned goods train: 11 dead, 51 injured.
1994 August 13th: GEORGIA - Collision between a passenger train and goods train south of Tbilisi: 24 dead.
1995 June 24th: CZECH REPUBLIC - Collision between a passenger train and a goods train south-east of Prague: 18 dead.
1996 February 26th: HUNGARY: - Collision between a goods train and a coach at a level crossing: 11 dead, 20 injured.
1997 January 12th: ITALY - Derailment of a high-speed train on the Milan-Rome mainline: eight dead, 30 injured.
March 31st: SPAIN - Derailment of a train: 18 dead.
May 5th: POLAND - Derailment: 11 dead, 19 injured.
September 8th: FRANCE - Collision between a fuel tanker and a train at a level crossing: 13 dead, 43 injured.
September 19th: BRITAIN - Collision between an express train and a freight train in Southall: seven dead, 150 injured.
October 7th: UKRAINE - Collision between a train and a coach: 18 dead, two injured.
1998 March 6th: FINLAND - Derailment at Jyvaeskylae: 11 dead, 39 injured.
June 3rd: GERMANY - A high-speed InterCity Express train derails and crashes into a motorway pillar due to a faulty wheel: 101 dead, 200 injured.
1999 October 5th: BRITAIN - Collision between two high-speed trains near Paddington, London: 31 dead, 245 injured.
2000 February 5th: GERMANY - The Amsterdam-Basel express derails at high speed as it enters the station in Bruehl: eight dead, 149 injured.
October 18th: BRITAIN - A high-speed train derails near Hatfield: four dead, 35 injured.
2001 Yesterday: BRITAIN - A passenger train and a freight train crash near Selby: 13 dead.