All aboard the train to nowhere

If you look at lists of the worst train accidents in the world, India figures more often than any other country. You take any period, accidents in the past 50 years, or 20 years, or this century, India appears the maximum number of times as the country that had the worst rail accident on the planet in a particular year. In 1981, a brake failure and an attempt to evade a buffalo during a cyclone led to an unestimated number of deaths in Bihar.

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