A succession of derailments caused widespread delays to Mumbai commuter trains in mid-September. Services on the Central Railway were disrupted when five coaches of a local train entering Chhatrapati...
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On 19 September, 10 tankcars carrying ethanol in a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) 98-wagon train derailed between the towns of Scotland and Lesterville in south-east South Dakota. Two...
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The two leading wheels of the locomotive hauling the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express derailed shortly before reaching Tatanagar station on 18 September. The 18 coaches, carrying some 900...
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A bicycle, apparently discarded on the track, was hit by a train on 14 September. The train was put out of action and services were disrupted at four Harlem Line (New York) stations - Williams Bridge,...
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A northbound passenger train with more than 200 people on board struck an empty vehicle on the track near Palo Alto, south of San Francisco, on 12 September. No one was hurt in the accident but...
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On 12 September, two British women tourists died when three vehicles in a four-coach train derailed on the narrow gauge Kalka-Shimla line in India. A third person is believed to have died in hospital...
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Three people were reported hurt after a subway train carrying about 100 passengers derailed on 11 September in Brooklyn, New York, but the incident disrupted trains running in both directions on the G...
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On 8 September, a morning peak-hour commuter train caught fire at Warwick Parkway station. There were 150 passengers on board the 07:46 Leamington to Worcester train which was evacuated when flames...
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A 15-year-old schoolgirl was robbed of her cellphone and slapped across her face on a train between Cape Town and Pinelands. Metrorail regional manager Richard Walker was quoted saying: "We are...
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The Durban-Johannesburg overnight Shosholoza Meyl express, barely into its journey, was involved in a derailment at Dalbridge on the night of 30 August. Further detail is not available, but it is...
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