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On February 28, 1956, 13 people were killed and 143 injured in two train wrecks on the same line on the same day.
List of rail accidents (1950–1959)1956
• February 28 – United States – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampscott_train_wreck, Swampscott, Massachusetts: A Boston and Maine Railroad RDC train runs into the back of another stationary passenger train which had stopped because signals were obscured by fallen snow. 13 people are killed.
• February 28 - United States – A collision in Revere, Massachusetts injured 143 people – some of whom had already been in the Swampscott wreck earlier that day.