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Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens

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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Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens

Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Mon Nov 2 08:32:17 2026, in response to Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Mon Nov 2 07:00:37 2026.



Wasn't there a major derailment on the IRT 7th Avenue Line just south of Times Square? I believe that it occurred sometime in the late twenties.

Larry, RedbirdR33

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Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens

Posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Mon Nov 2 08:42:10 2026, in response to Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Mon Nov 2 08:32:17 2026.

From google so you decided if AI is wrong:

August 24, 1928 (Times Square): A downtown 10-car express train derailed just south of the Times Square station because a track switch was left unspiked and operated by an untrained clerk using a false identity. The crash caused 18 deaths and around 100 injuries, ranking as one of the deadliest accidents in New York City Subway history.

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Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Mon Nov 2 08:57:25 2026, in response to Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Mon Nov 2 08:32:17 2026.

Alas, I'm hardly a subway historian. I'll leave that to the better informed among us.

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Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens

Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Mon Nov 2 11:48:33 2026, in response to Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens, posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Mon Nov 2 08:42:10 2026.



Thank you Lou.

Larry, RedbirdR33

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Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens

Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Nov 2 15:56:49 2026, in response to Re: Malbone Street Wreck For All You Transit History Mavens, posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Mon Nov 2 08:42:10 2026.

I don’t believe there were any ten car trains running in 1928.

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