Some recent deadly train accidents in Europe before Wednesday's crash in Spain:
-- July 12, 2013: Six people are killed and nearly 200 injured just south of Paris when four cars slide off the tracks as a passenger train speeds through the small French town of Bretigny-sur-Orge.
-- April 22, 2012: A woman dies of injuries a day after two trains collide head-on in Amsterdam. At least 16 people are seriously injured.
-- April 13, 2012: Three people are killed and 13 injured in a train crash near Frankfurt when two trains collide and derail.
-- March 3, 2012: Two trains collide head-on in southern Poland, killing at least eight people and injuring around 50.
-- Jan. 30, 2011: A head-on collision between a cargo train and a passenger train kills at least 10 people and injures 23 near the eastern German village of Hordorf.
-- Dec. 9, 2010: One person is killed and two others are injured after a train derailed in southern Greece between the southern cities of Argos and Tripoli.
-- Aug. 6, 2010: A train derails in southern Italy, killing one passenger and leaving about 30 injured on the outskirts of Naples, its destination.
-- July 23, 2010: Switzerland's popular Glacier Express tourist train derails in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42 on its spectacular journey between Zermatt and St. Moritz.
-- Feb. 15, 2010: A train wreck in Buizingen, Belgium, kills 18 people and injures 55.
-- July 1, 2009: Thirty-two people are killed and 26 injured when a train carrying liquefied gas derails and explodes while travelling through a downtown neighbourhood in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio.
-- Oct. 6, 2008: A local passenger train runs into the back of a long-distance train near Budapest, Hungary, killing four people and injuring 26.
-- Jan. 27, 2008: A passenger train derails in central Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, possibly due to ice on the tracks.
-- July 3, 2006: A local passenger train crashes in the southern city of Valencia, killing 43 people. Excessive speed is blamed.
