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The Viareggio derailment was the derailment and subsequent fire of a freight train carrying liquefied petroleum gas.[1]

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  1. 52 relations: Agence France-Presse, Altero Matteoli, BBC News, BBC News Online, Bologna, Carbonization, Central Italy, Chief executive officer, Coordinated Universal Time, Derailment, Deutsche Bahn, Erg (company), European Union Agency for Railways, Expansion ratio, ExxonMobil, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, FS Class E.656, GATX, Genoa, Gricignano di Aversa, Italian General Confederation of Labour, ITN, La Repubblica, La Spezia, Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Liquefied petroleum gas, Lucca, Mauro Moretti, Michele Mario Elia, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport (Italy), Moby Prince disaster, Monzuno, Nishapur train disaster, Pisa, Polish State Railways, Province of Lucca, Quotidiano.net, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Reuters, Scooter (motorcycle), Silvio Berlusconi, Sky News, Soham rail disaster, Spontaneous combustion, Teverola, TGcom, The Independent, Trecate, Tuscany, UTC+02:00, ... Expand index (2 more) »

  2. 2009 disasters in Italy
  3. 2009 fires in Europe
  4. Accidents and incidents involving Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
  5. Derailments in Italy
  6. Explosions in 2009
  7. Fires in Italy
  8. June 2009 events in Europe
  9. Railway accidents in 2009
  10. Viareggio

Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Altero Matteoli

Altero Matteoli (8 September 1940 – 18 December 2017) was an Italian politician.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Carbonization

Carbonization or carbonisation is the conversion of organic matters like plants and dead animal remains into carbon through destructive distillation.

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Central Italy

Central Italy (Italia centrale or Centro Italia) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first-level NUTS region, and a European Parliament constituency.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Derailment

In rail transport, a derailment is a type of train wreck that occurs when a rail vehicle such as a train comes off its rails.

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Deutsche Bahn

The Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government.

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Erg (company)

Erg S.p.A., acronym for Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone, is an Italian energy company, founded in 1938, and based in Genoa, Italy.

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European Union Agency for Railways

The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) that sets mandatory requirements for European railways and manufacturers in the form of Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI), which apply to the Trans-European Rail system.

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Expansion ratio

The expansion ratio of a liquefied and cryogenic substance is the volume of a given amount of that substance in liquid form compared to the volume of the same amount of substance in gaseous form, at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

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Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane

Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ("Italian State Railways JSC"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the initialism FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estate services and other services in Italy and other European countries.

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FS Class E.656

The Class E.656 is an Italian articulated rheostatic-type electric locomotive built from 1975 to 1989.

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GATX

GATX Corporation is a railcar lessor that owns fleets in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Gricignano di Aversa

Gricignano di Aversa (Campanian: Rricignànë or, less commonly, Rricignèn) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about north of Naples and about southwest of Caserta.

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Italian General Confederation of Labour

The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) is a national trade union centre in Italy.

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ITN

Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company.

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La Repubblica

(English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023.

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La Spezia

La Spezia (or,; A Spèza, in the local) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy.

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Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Viareggio train derailment and Lac-Mégantic rail disaster are train and rapid transit fires.

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Liquefied petroleum gas

Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, ''n''-butane and isobutane.

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Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea.

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Mauro Moretti

Mauro Moretti (born 29 October 1953) is an Italian executive and former CEO and general manager of Leonardo S.p.A. (formerly Finmeccanica), from May 2014 to May 2017.

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Michele Mario Elia

Michele Mario Elia is an Italian manager and CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Spa from 2014 to 2015.

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Minister of Infrastructure and Transport (Italy)

This is a list of the ministers of infrastructure and transport, whose office name and portfolio have undergone variations over the last decades.

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Moby Prince disaster

The Moby Prince disaster was a major maritime accident resulting in 140 deaths.

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Monzuno

Monzuno (Bolognese: Munżón) is an Italian comune in the Metropolitan City of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna).

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Nishapur train disaster

The Neishapur train disaster was a large explosion in the village of Khayyam near Nishapur in Iran, on 18 February 2004. Viareggio train derailment and Nishapur train disaster are train and rapid transit fires.

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Pisa

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

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Polish State Railways

The Polish State Railways (Polish: Polskie Koleje Państwowe, abbr.: PKP S.A.) is a Polish state-owned holding company (legally a sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury) comprising the rail transport holdings of the country's formerly dominant namesake railway operator.

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Province of Lucca

The province of Lucca (provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy.

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Quotidiano.net

Quotidiano.net is an Italian news website launched in 2000 and owned by the publishing house Poligrafici Editoriale, whose print publications include the newspapers Il Giorno, il Resto del Carlino, and La Nazione.

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Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), a state-owned holding company.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Scooter (motorcycle)

A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, a seat, a transmission that shifts without the operator having to operate a clutch lever, a platform for their feet, and with a method of operation that emphasizes comfort and fuel economy.

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Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi (29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Soham rail disaster

The Soham rail disaster occurred on 2 June 1944, during the Second World War, when a fire developed on the leading wagon of a heavy ammunition train.

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Spontaneous combustion

Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition.

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Teverola

Teverola is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about north of Naples and about southwest of Caserta.

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TGcom

TGcom was an Italian news Website owned by Mediaset, launched on March 8, 2001.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Trecate

Trecate is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about east of Novara.

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Tuscany

Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.

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UTC+02:00

UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00.

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Viareggio

Viareggio is a city and comune in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Viareggio railway station

Viareggio railway station (Stazione di Viareggio) serves the city and comune of Viareggio, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. Viareggio train derailment and Viareggio railway station are Viareggio.

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See also

2009 disasters in Italy

2009 fires in Europe

Accidents and incidents involving Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane

Derailments in Italy

Explosions in 2009

Fires in Italy

June 2009 events in Europe

Railway accidents in 2009

Viareggio

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viareggio_train_derailment

Also known as 2009 Viareggio derailment, 2009 Viareggio freight train disaster, 2009 Viareggio train accident, 2009 Viareggio train derailment, Viareggio derailment.

, Viareggio, Viareggio railway station.