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Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Mon Nov 2 07:00:37 2026 From Wikipedia:"The Malbone Street wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line accident, was a rapid transit railroad accident that occurred on November 1, 1918, on the New York City Subway's BMT Brighton Line (now part of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line) in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. A speeding train derailed in the sharply curved tunnel beneath Willink Plaza, the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Ocean Avenue, and Malbone Street (now known as Empire Boulevard). At least 93 people died, making it the third-deadliest train crash in American history, being surpassed by the 1910 Wellington Avalanche Train Wreck and the Great Train Wreck of 1918, as well as the deadliest crash in the history of the New York City Subway" |
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