Rail accidents in Norway are rare. On 15 February, a Stadler FLIRT test train derailed south of Oslo. According to the Accident Investigation Board Norway (AIBN), investigations at the accident site...
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Snow and ice have caused continuing delays to trains in the south of England, during very cold weather similar to that which has plagued western and Eastern Europe, where temperatures as much as 40...
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Bulgarski Durzhavni Zheleznitzi (BDZ ' Bulgaria's state railway) has been asking people to avoid travel by train except in 'absolute emergency'. Heavy snowfalls have seriously disrupted train...
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), UK Department for Transport, is investigating an incident on 3 October 2011, when a pedestrian was struck and killed on Mexico footpath crossing, near...
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The main east-west railway route in western Austria was shut down on 7 January following heavy snow in the popular Alpine skiing region. Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB ' Austria's state railway)...
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An electric failure shut down the entire Berlin S-Bahn suburban commuter rail network on 15 December, leaving the German capital without any service. The system is operated by a subsidiary of Deutsche...
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From: Passenger accident at Brentwood station, a Crown copyright 2011 report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, UK Department for Transport:
'At 23:42 on 28 January 2011, a passenger...
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Train services on the lines Sofia-Vidin, Sofia-Varna, and Sofia-Ruse lines were halted on 23 November by blasting at a mining facility near Thompson in north-east Bulgaria. A section of track was...
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Abnormally dry weather in the UK was blamed for 30km of the railway between Ely in Cambridgeshire and Downham Market in Norfolk being closed on November 20 and 27 for repairs. It was explained that...
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According to British rail union RMT, a communication failure at 18:50 on 4 November that stalled ten trains on London's underground Jubilee Line, stranding 'thousands' of commuters, demonstrated the...
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