CHANNEL TUNNEL STALLED BY COLD

According to a Bloomberg report quoting Eurostar Group Ltd, engineering work designed to make locomotives snowproof won't enable it to drop speed restrictions and a limit of one train at a time...

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TURKEY: DRIVER KILLED

A passenger train that crashed into another at a station in Bilecik, some 400km south of Istanbul, resulted in the death of one driver. Seven people were hurt. Both trains were travelling from...

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RUSSIAN DISASTER

The authorities in Russia are treating the crash of the Nevsky Express in which at least 25 people were killed and some 26 reported missing as terrorism. More than 90 were hospitalised, some of them...

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TRAINS DISRUPTED BY UK FLOODS

Widespread disruption to train services in Britain and Ireland followed the heaviest rain ever recorded in the UK on 20 November. Britain's Met Office said a record 314.4mm fell in 24 hours in...

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BURST MAIN FLOODS HELSINKI STATIONS

Three underground Metro stations in central Helsinki were closed after a water main burst, flooding the tunnels beneath. The main Metro station is expected to be out of service for several weeks. The...

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SPANISH END-OF-LINE FATALITY

The driver was killed when a Spanish passenger train ran into the buffers at Lezama in Spain's northern Basque province. Three passengers were reported hurt, one badly. According to...

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RUSSIAN COLLISION: 80 HURT

After the locomotive of a passenger express from Moscow failed at Selezni-Tambov station in the west of Russia, a replacement diesel ran into the stationary passenger train, reportedly 'at speed'....

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DUTCH 3-TRAIN COLLISION KILLS DRIVER

The driver of a freight train died and several people were injured when two freight trains collided near Barendrecht outside Rotterdam. A spokesperson for rail management company ProRail said that...

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IRISH BRIDGE AFTERMATH

The collapse of a supporting pier carrying the viaduct across the Broadmeadow Estuary 13km north of Dublin on 21 August was caused by tidal 'scouring' of the foundations, subsequent investigations...

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TRUCK JAMS UNDER RAIL BRIDGE

On 28 August, a rental truck running on a road beneath a Norfolk Southern overbridge in downtown Greensboro jammed fast under the structure. No injuries were reported and the span was not damaged. The...

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