Sixty people were injured when two Israel Railways passenger trains were involved in a side-swiping collision near Netanya. It is thought that the driver of a train travelling to Tel Aviv ran a red...
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According to the London Evening Standard, train service on the Bakerloo underground line was stopped by water short-circuiting the third-rail power supply between Paddington and Elephant & Castle....
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In January, six tonnes of copper were stolen from the Bridgnorth site of Britain's well-known Severn Valley Railway (SVR). Police described the theft as "audacious". The thieves broke in at night and...
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Rossiiskie Zheleznie Dorogi (RZhD ' the Russian State Railway) has begun installing modular prefabricated concrete platforms developed in conjunction with Deutsche Bahn (DB ' Germany's national...
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The UK's Network Rail has admitted failings that led to the Potters Bar crash in which six passengers and a pedestrian were killed when a train from London to King's Lynn derailed on 10 May 2002. The...
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The number of serious incidents in which British trains passed danger signals increased last year. There were 306 category A cases of signals passed at danger (SPAD) on the railways in 2010 compared...
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On 12 February, German police were able to prevent a bomb attack on railway signals on the northern edge of Berlin. They seized and defused two explosive devices in cable ducts near the town of...
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On 5 February, train 2T02, the 05:55 from Hebden Bridge to Leeds in Yorkshire, struck rubble as it approached Dryclough Junction in Halifax at about 48km/h. Comprising a class 158 two-car diesel...
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On 14 January at midnight, police in East Liverpool, Ohio, questioned a man they found sitting in his car parked on the railway. According to their report, the driver was heading south on Bay Avenue...
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At 22:30 on 30 January, a passenger and goods train collided head-on at Hordorf, near Magdeburg in Germany's eastern Saxony-Anhalt. Ten people died and some 40 were injured. The passenger train,...
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