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View attachment 1715623388The
Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the
Granville–Paris Express overran the
buffer stop at its
Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it approached the station too fast and there was a failure to apply the train air brake. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall; the locomotive fell onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry.