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The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
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Dahlerau train disaster
1971 railway accident in Dahlerau, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Wuppertal
City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and 17th-largest in Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of Elberfeld, Barmen, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)