On 12 July, an empty commuter train overran the end of the dead-end platform 10 line at Kolkata’s Sealdah station, and two coaches derailed. It is suspected that the shunter driving the set...
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The driver of a semitrailer in Sandusky, Ohio, trying to reverse the rig onto an access road on 9 July, became stuck in mud with the cab on a rail line. The inevitable happened: a train arrived. The...
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The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) estimates the cost of damage caused by fire at Germiston station on 14 July at R30 million. Apparently there had been delays to the service and...
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On 13 July, a 20-wagon TransNamib train hauled by two locomotives derailed a vehicle conveying sulphuric acid near Dune 7 between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. Emergency workers from the Rössing...
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Gautrain services on the north-south line ran 30 minutes behind schedule in the morning peak hour on 1 July, reportedly due to a technical problem at Pretoria. ...
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On 17 June, an express passenger train heading to Gaafour from Tunis (120km to the north-east) derailed when it collided with a truck at an open, unprotected crossing about 60km into its journey. “At...
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On 3 June a train comprising 22 empty wagons hauled by a class 66 diesel locomotive derailed at low speed on a curved section of the single line linking sidings to the North Kent line at Angerstein...
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On 2 July, in Maryville, Tennessee a 57-wagon CSX freight train en route from Cincinnati to Waycross in Georgia derailed one vehicle in the consist that was carrying acrylonitrile. Fire ensued. The US...
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Amtrak was forced to cancel four trains near Pontiac, Illinois, on 7 July, following the derailing of eight wagons in a 105-vehicle, three--loco, Union Pacific freight. No injuries were...
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Less than a week after a CSX wagon carrying acrylonitrile derailed in Maryville, Tennessee and caught fire, four CSX vehicles carrying mixed freight derailed and flipped over in Berry Hill,...
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