An eastbound Canadian National train comprising 137 wagons derailed six vehicles at Salem near Colborne, Ontario, on 23 March. Two were empty flatcars but the others were tankcars carrying...
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On 17 March, the United States government sued the Union Pacific Railroad for $37.7 million in fines that have accumulated since 2001 as a result of drug smuggling across the Mexican border on the...
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A 60-wagon CSX Transportation freight train underwent emergency braking on 14 March when the driver spotted a man sitting on the track at Rockwood in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. State police were...
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Ten wagons carrying wheat derailed on a trestle at Williston, North Dakota, on 17 March, spilling 4,000 bushels. One vehicle fell 5 metres into Red Bank Creek. According to an official of the...
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Britain's rail accidents investigation board (RAIB) is looking into the derailment of a train at West India Quay on London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) on 10 March 2009. Train 706 from Bank to...
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The UK rail industry has acted on 97% of the recommendations made by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) says chief inspector Carolyn Griffiths.
"Whilst the RAIB is a very new organisation...
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According to the Herald, published in Harare by the government, the theft of overhead wires worth $US108,000 has disrupted National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) services between the capital and...
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On 5 March, a CSX Transportation train exiting a poultry feed company siding in Falkville, Illinois, derailed nine empty grain hoppers. It is suspected that a steel piece fell off one wagon and lodged...
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According to the New York Daily News, 'members of the British Transport Police (BTP), sporting distinctive 19th century helmets, strolled through Penn Station [in Manhattan] with teams of Amtrak...
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Two football fans died and 11 were hurt when they were hit by an empty passenger train travelling at about 60km/h near Aubervilliers, north of Paris. They had taken a short cut to reach their bus stop...
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