List of wind-related railway accidents

• 1928 – 47 waggons blown along line at Tocumwal [3]
• 1931 – Kandos – wind blows level crossing gates closed in front of motor-cyclist [4]
• 1943 – Hobart, Tasmania; Concern that wind will blow over doubledeck trams on 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge if top deck enclosed.[5]
• 2010 – Marla, South Australia; Small tornado blows over train.[6]

• 1910 – Trieste (now in Italy) – train blown down embankment.[7]

• Lanxin High-Speed Railway#Wind shed
• February 28, 2007 – Wind blows 10 passenger rail cars off the track near Turpan, China.

• Great Belt Bridge rail accident. On 2 January 2019 a DSB express passenger train is hit by a semi-trailer from a passing cargo train on the western bridge of the Great Belt Fixed Link during Storm Alfrida, killing eight people and injuring 16.[8]

• Rügen narrow-gauge railway, 20 October 1936: derailment of a train, five injured[9][10]

• One reason for choosing broad gauge in India for greater stability in high winds.

• On the night of 30 January 1925, strong winds derailed carriages of a train crossing the Owencarrow Viaduct of the 914 mm (3 ft) gauge Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway.

• Inaho
• Amarube Viaduct
• 1895 Gale blows train into sea [11]

• Rimutaka Incline railway accident

• Makrellbekken (station)#Wind related accident – blowing snow disoriented a tractor driver who collided with a train

• Wind tangles overhead wiring in Cape Town, 2012.[12]

• Tay Bridge disaster 1879
• Chelford rail accident 1894 – during shunting
• De-wirements on the East Coast Main Line
• Leven Viaduct, Cumbria 27 February 1903
• Cheddington 2008 – two containers blown off train – design of "spigots" criticised.[13]
• Moston 2015 – out of gauge train hits platform, throwing stones onto other track.[14]
• Scout Green 2015 – empty 30-foot ISA container blown off train [15]

• On April 24, 1883, 2 cars of a passenger train were blown from the narrow-gauge Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad tracks near Como, Colorado, with only minor injuries.[16]
• Around 7 AM, Feb. 23, 1884, 2 cars were blown off the narrow-gauge tracks of the Colorado Central Railroad near Georgetown, Colorado.[17]
• Around 2 PM, February 4, 1885, the wind overturned an entire 3-car Colorado Central Railroad train just east of Georgetown, Colorado. The express train had slowed to 8 miles per hour because of the wind. 18 out of 20 passengers were injured.[18]
• During the storm of 31 March / 1 April 1892 a narrow-gauge passenger train of the Burlington and Northwestern Railway was blown off the tracks while running at full speed 30 miles south of Oskaloosa, Iowa[19] or 40 miles northwest of Burlington[20]; 4 were seriously injured, a dozen more suffered minor injuries.[21] (The two locations given differ by about 20 miles but place the accident on the Burlington and Western Railway tracks.)
• On 2 September 1911 tram services in Charleston, South Carolina, were suspended due to winds.[22]
• A 2008 tornado in Northern Illinois derailed a Union Pacific train.[23] Dramatic footage of the event was captured by a camera mounted on the train.[24]
• On April 27, 2015 a severe storm knocked several double stack cars off the track as a train crossed the Huey P. Long Bridge, New Orleans, Louisiana, with no injuries. The accident was captured by a WGNO News Team dashcam.[25]
• On March 13, 2019, mid-day winds of around 80 mph derailed the rear 26 cars of a double stack train on the Union Pacific high steel trestle over the Canadian River south of Logan, New Mexico.[26]

One reason for choosing broad gauge (17% wider than standard gauge) for BART was the greater stability in high winds and perhaps earthquakes.[27][28][29]