A train of more than 130 wagons derailed 26 near
Dallas, Texas, on 26 July. The crew were not hurt and the accident affected
nobody as it occurred away from any houses. A quantity of coal was...
Read More
Read More
The majority of railway accidents (61.6%) were
due to falls from trains or trains hitting people on the tracks (17,480 out of
28,360 cases). Altogether, rail accidents claimed 25,006 lives in...
Read More
Read More
A gang of about six, armed with knives, boarded
a train at Retreat and proceeded to rob everyone in the coach. This happened at
about 19:00 on 22 July, on a southbound service. Apparently there...
Read More
Read More
On Friday evening 17 July, Metrorail commuter train 9404 ran into the
rear of train 9934 waiting at a red signal (CRN69) on the Up Slow track between
Booysens and Crown stations on the Rand Mineral...
Read More
Read More
On 22 July, three passengers died in a fast passenger train travelling from Bohumin to Frantiskovy Lazne when it collided with a truck on a crossing at Studenka, in the east of the Czech...
Read More
Read More
On 16
July near Culbertson, Montana, 22 tankcars out of 106 derailed in a Burlington
Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) train bound for Anacortes, Washington state,
from Trenton, North Dakota. An...
Read More
Read More
On 17 June 2014, Paul Anderson (37) was working an excavator on a New Zealand rail line. He had been told that a passing train was the only one that day – but then he was hit by another. He suffered...
Read More
Read More
The New
York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates more than 640km of track in
three states. On 21 July, one of its wagons, carrying plastic pellets,
inexplicably “ran away” down Schuyler...
Read More
Read More
The derailing of seven flatcars carrying containers on a bridge near Bowmanville, 63km north-east of Toronto, on 18 July, disrupted passenger train service between Toronto and Ottawa, as well as...
Read More
Read More
On 14 July, a westbound Norfolk Southern freight train consisting of three locomotives and 54 wagons had its last five vehicles (fortunately all empty) derailed when hit from behind by another train....
Read More
Read More