Train operations in midwinter are always a challenge in Chicago, where heavy snowfalls and iced-up infrastructure are routine. Though a derailment near south suburban Richton Park on 27 January was...
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On 24 February, Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited en route to Chicago from New York with 156 passengers on board derailed the baggage car and a coach at Hammond in north-western Indiana. Both vehicleswere...
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In late February, 120 ton diesel locomotive no 2617 belonging to America's CSX Transportation company was parked on a Miami siding over a weekend. It was still there at 23:30 on the Sunday night, but...
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Millions of cross-Channel passengers and trucks have suffered delays and cancellations since a serious fire damaged one of the two 50km tunnels under the sea during September 2008. A road truck...
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Cases of motorists taking dangerous and illegal risks at level
crossings are at a five-year high in Britain, the BBC reports. . Infrastructure authority Network Rail says there were 400
incidents at...
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On 27 February, two class 34 diesels - 34 047 and 34 048 - were involved in a head-on collision. Several mielie wagons also left the rails and have since been rerailed. Loco 34 048, heading the...
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from The Chronicle (Bulawayo):
'A couple from Makhado Village under Chief Sitauze area in Beitbridge District was run over by a speeding passenger train while taking a nap on The tracks along The...
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On 23 February, according to an SABC report, a Shosholoza Meyl passenger train with more than 300 people aboard derailed at Ga-Dikgale outside Polokwane in Limpopo province. The passengers were...
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Transnet Freight Rail locomotive driver Lulama Farmer (23) died after being struck by a car in Heidelberg, south-east of Johannesburg, on 8 February. According to The Star, 'Farmer and her friend...
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On 27 January, a Johannesburg-based passenger train derailed when it collided with a stopblock in the Naledi staging yard, Soweto. According to Metrorail spokesman Sibusiso Ngomane, quoted by the...
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