ITALY BANS WAGONS FOLLOWING FIRE

Ferrovie dello Stato (FS ' the Italian state railway) has suspended the use of wagons belonging to the US company GATX following the 30 June disaster which left 18 people dead and 24 seriously hurt....

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FREE STATE CROSSING FATALITIES

On 14 July, the SABC reported that four people had died following a crossing accident on the main-line at Viljoensdrift, after their vehicle stalled on the line. Three died on the scene, the other...

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THREE HELD FOR RAIL THEFT

Between July 2004 and November 2004, three Kentucky men stole railway material in the Kermit area and sold it to scrap metal merchants in Salyersville, Kentucky, according to federal charges preferred...

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RACED TRAIN TO CROSSING: 5 DEAD

On 9 July, five teenagers were killed when they drove around a lowered crossing gate and were hit by Amtrak's Detroit-Chicago train 353 in Carson Township, near Dearborn, Michigan. The locomotive...

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BRAKES CAUSED CHINA CRASH

One of the two trains involved in a collision on 29 June at Chenzhou, in China's Hunan province, killing three people and injured 63, suffered brake failure. According to deputy general manager of the...

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FRENCH DERAILMENT AT CROSSING

Three coaches of a Paris-Cahors train carrying 450 passengers derailed (but did not capsize) after hitting a trailer near the south-western French city of Limoges, injuring 13, six seriously....

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AUSTRALIAN TRACK WAS 'MISALIGNED'

Investigations into a November 2008 derailment has revealed the much of the A$1.4 billion, newly built Alice Springs-Darwin section of the AustralAsia Adelaide-Darwin line is 'misaligned'. The...

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FATAL CHICAGO CRASH

On 30 June, one person was killed and another seriously injured when they were pinned beneath a Metra Electric Line train on Chicago's South Side. Train services were halted for some two hours and a...

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AMTRAK PASSENGERS SIZZLE

Amtrak's southbound Heartland Flyer (which would be known in Canada or South Africa as the Oklahoma City-Fort Worth train), collided with a tractor and plough near Davis, Oklahoma, on 27 June. It...

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DERAILED IN PENN STATION

It happens even in the best of families. An Amtrak train derailed on track 13 at Pennsylvania station in downtown Manhattan on 23 June, resulting in 10 commuter services on the Long Island Railroad...

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