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A look at some of Europe’s train disasters in recent times

FILE - The wreckage of two railway trains lie across the tracks, following a crash near Paddington Station in west London, on Oct. 5, 1999. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) FILE - A fireman sprays water on the wrecked car of a freight train in Viareggio, on June 30, 2009, after it exploded just outside the station of this coastal town in northern Italy. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Lorenzo Galassi, File) FILE - Rescue workers search wreckage of derailed passenger train, Bioce, near Podgorica, Serbia-Montenegro in 2006. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo, File) FILE - A worker walks by the scene of a subway train collision in Valencia, Spain on Sept. 9, 2005. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante, File) FILE - An injured passenger is carried away on a stretcher by policemen after a subway train derailed and overturned inside a tunnel in the eastern Mediterranean port city of Valencia, Spain, on July 3, 2006. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Rafa Gil, File) FILE - Smoke pours from the upper mouth of the tunnel up the Kitzsteinhorn, Mountain, Austria, on Nov. 11, 2000, where a cable car caught fire killing some 170 snowboarders and skiers, many of them children or teenagers. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Georg Koechler, File) FILE - Experts load body bags next to a service tunnel that connects to the Kitzsteinhorn mountain tunnel in Kaprun, Austria on Nov. 14, 2000, where they have started recovering the remains of the victims that died in the cable car disaster on Nov. 11, 2000. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Franz Neumayr, Pool, File) FILE - Members of a recovery crew work in the tunnel of the Kaprun cable car, on Jan. 30, 2001, which caught fire last November killing 155 people. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen.(AP Photo/Franz Neumayr, Pool, File) FILE - A crane lifts a coach of the derailed high-speed train from the track at the crash site in Eschede, on June 6, 1998. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File) FILE - An aerial view, taken on June 4, 1998, of the site where a German high speed train derailed in Eschede, northern Germany. Rail travel in Europe is a common and relatively affordable and convenient way for many Europeans to travel. It also has a good safety record overall, growing safer in past years. Yet the tragedy in Greece on Wednesday is a reminder of how deadly crashes can be when they happen. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)
A look at some of Europe’s train disasters in recent times