2001 Stewiacke Via derailment
railway incident in Nova Scotia, Canada
The Stewiacke Via train derailment was a derailment that occurred on April 12, 2001 in downtown Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada, resulting in 22 people being injured. The train was Via Rail's Ocean (train #15), travelling from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Montreal, Quebec and carrying 123 passengers and a crew of nine at the time of the incident. The derailment occurred approximately where the old Stewiacke station once stood, and was the result of a 13-year-old boy tampering with a railway switch. At the time of the derailment the train was travelling at 77 kilometres per hour (48 mph). The two locomotives, baggage car, and first coach remained on the main track; the nine following cars were diverted onto an industrial track and derailed. The crash resulted in the destruction of the dining car, the industrial track, and a farm supply outlet.
The train consist was made up of the following cars:
1. F40PH-2 Diesel-electric locomotive number 6405
2. F40PH-2 Diesel-electric locomotive number 6455
3. Baggage car number 8619
4.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2001 Stewiacke Via derailment” is railway incident in Nova Scotia, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stewiacke, derailment and railway, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “railway incident in Nova Scotia, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105702299. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “2001 Stewiacke Via derailment”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow 2001 Stewiacke Via derailment primary sources, 2001 Stewiacke Via derailment archive and Stewiacke research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “2001 Stewiacke Via derailment”?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “2001 Stewiacke Via derailment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.