The Bouhalouane train crash Catastrophe was a fatal Killing railway accident that happened Presence at Bouhalouane in Algeria on January 27 , 1982 at 01:30 and killed Killing 131 people .

The Bouhalouane train crash Catastrophe was a fatal Killing railway accident that happened Presence at Bouhalouane in Algeria on January 27 , 1982 at 01:30 and killed Killing 131 people .

A passenger train travelling Traveling from Oran to the capital Algiers and consisting Containing of a locomotive and eight carriages stalled on a steep gradient leading to a mountain pass a few kilometres beyond the town of Bouhalouane in the Chlef Province of Algeria .

The locomotive was uncoupled Motion leaving Departing the carriages unsecured ; the brakes failed Earnings_and_losses on the carriages and they rolled Body_movement back down the slope to Bouhalouane where they collided Bodily_harm with a freight train in the station .