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Montparnasse derailment
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 4 pm 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 entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. 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. The engineer was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.
==Derailment==
On 22 October 1895 the Granville to Paris Montparnasse express, operated by Chemins de fer de l'Ouest, was composed of steam locomotive No. 721 (a type 2-4-0, French notation 120) hauling three baggage vans, a post van, and six passenger carriages. The train had left Granville on time at 8:45 am, but was several minutes late as it approached its Paris Montparnasse terminus with 131 passengers on board. In an effort to make up lost time〔 the train entered the station too fast, at a speed of , and the Westinghouse air brake failed to stop it.〔 Without sufficient braking, the momentum of the train carried it slowly into the buffers, and the locomotive crossed the almost wide station concourse, crashing through a thick wall, before falling onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry; and two passengers, the fireman, two guards and a passerby in the street sustained injuries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Paris 1895 )〕
The woman, Marie-Augustine Aguilard, had been standing in for her husband, a newspaper vendor, while he went to collect the evening newspapers. The railway company paid for her funeral and provided a pension to care for their two children.
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