On 20 February 2010, one pair of wheels on a passenger train derailed at East Langton, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Train 1F45, the 14:55 from London St Pancras to Sheffield, comprised a...
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On 8 November, the 06:45 passenger train from London Charing Cross to Hasting overshot Stonegate station where it was scheduled to stop by 4km. On its approach it was travelling at about 100km/h. The...
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On 10 May 2002, seven people died when a London to King's Lynn train derailed due to points failure at Potters Bar in North London. In 2005, a Health and Safety Executive report said poor maintenance...
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On 5 November 2010, a three-axle concrete mixer vehicle crashed through the parapet of a bridge over the double-track railway near Oxshott, Surrey, UK, and fell 10.5 metres onto train 2G46, the 15:05...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is investigating a serious incident involving a freight train that occurred on the West Coast Main Line in Cumbria. At around 01:51 on 17 August...
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To date it has cost 28 million to build the new Caernarfon to Porthmadog 610mm gauge Welsh Highland Railway (WHR). The locomotives are ex-South African Garratts and much of the track came from...
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Some 40 injury cases were reported following a head-on collision between two passenger trains at Arlon in southern Belgium, near the border with Luxembourg. All were treated at the scene except for...
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A year has passed since the Malahide viaduct on the main Belfast to Dublin railway collapsed. A report from the Railway Accident Investigation Unit claims Iarnród Éireann (IE - the Irish state...
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Though train passengers do not usually sustain injury in level crossing collisions, 19 were reported hurt ' one critically ' at Sewage Works Lane near Sudbury in Suffolk, UK on 17 August 2010. The...
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On 13 August 2010, a serious runaway occurred on the London Underground's Northern Line. A self-propelled diesel-powered rail re-profiler had been working between Highgate and Archway stations on the...
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