Nearly 900 people took their own lives along rail lines in Germany during 2009. Currently, the wife of a train driver is suing the parents of a 20-year-old man who died after being hit by a train in...
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'Adding a new meaning to 'cattle class' in the UK, cows on the track accounted for 15 train cancellations on a West Midlands' section of the West Coast line between...
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On 29 May, according to a BBC report, travel chaos hit thousands of East Coast Main-Line passengers after four power lines came down. East Coast said 70 of its 102 scheduled services were disrupted....
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On 25 May, passengers on a train that failed near Kentish Town station at 18:30 due to electrical supply problems complained that they were stuck in a tunnel for nearly three hours with no water, air...
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It was something that could happen in the best of families but there was quite a bit to be learned from this one, the subject of a recently released report by the UK Rail Accidents Investigation...
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On 20 April 2011, a tram travelling towards Birmingham at about 70km/h struck a cantilever tube (a section of steel tubing) that had become partially detached from a post supporting overhead line...
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The UK Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into the partial failure of a brick arch culvert carrying a stream under a four-track railway and three adjacent sidings, south of...
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The UK Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into a 23 March 2011 occurrence at the Lydney station level crossing, Gloucestershire, on the line between Severn Tunnel Junction and...
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From the British press, 4 May 2011:
Angry mobs in Argentina burned train coaches in at least three stations after a derailment caused long delays to commuter services on 2 May.
Police said the...
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On 11 April 2011, an explosion in a subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during the evening rush hour killed 11 people and wounded 126. The station is within 100 metres of the...
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