Train accident - 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 - Paris, France
One of the most spectacular accidents of the age occurred at the Montparnasse railway station. Photo by Antonin Neurdein/Roger-Viollet
a loco and train that had a failure of it's Westinghouse compressed air brake, and broke through the wall of Montparnasse station, and fell onto the Place de Rennes, in Paris, on October