2012 Burlington Via derailment

The Burlington VIA train derailment was a derailment that occurred on February 26, 2012, in the Aldershot neighbourhood of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, resulting in deaths of the 3 engineers in the locomotive and 46 injuries. There were 75 passengers and four crew members on board at the time of the accident. The derailment occurred in an industrial area east of Aldershot GO Station. The official report into the accident was released on June 10, 2013, by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) indicating that the crew misinterpreted the signal causing them to believe that they were authorized to proceed at track speed, when in fact they were authorized only for slow speed—a maximum of 15 mph (24 km/h)—in order to switch tracks.

Burlington VIA train derailment
Details
DateFebruary 26, 2012
15:30 (UTC−05)
LocationBurlington, Ontario
Coordinates43°19′33″N 79°50′02″W
CountryCanada
LineCorridor
OperatorVia Rail
Incident typeDerailment
CauseExcessive speed on crossover.
Statistics
Trains1
Deaths3
Injured46 (43 minor, 3 serious)
Location diagram
Track no.
Crossover No. 1 (Burlington West)
Crossover No. 5 (Aldershot East)
Signal  334T2  showing Slow to Limited
Aldershot Station
Signal  348T2  showing Clear to Slow
Signal  364T2  showing Clear to Limited
Key
Path of VIA 92 set by the Centralized
Traffic Control System (CTC)
Path of VIA 92 expected by the engineers
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