In addition to requiring stronger vehicle construction, a number of measures being implemented in North America to control oil train operation include speed restrictions. An envisaged limit of 80km/h...
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On 27 April, four flatcars carrying empty containers were blown off the Huey P Long Bridge at New Orleans. The weather was described as 'severe', and there were tornado warnings.
The 7km-long Huey...
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At about 11:35 on 10 April, South Eastern train 2V29 from London Cannon Street to Hayes in Kent was leaving West Wickham station when the driver observed (displayed on a platform monitor) a passenger...
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A miniature train that has been running at Watford west of London for 35 years derailed on 7 April. Press reports told of children being 'trapped' but a trainee paramedic said the coach was lifted and...
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None of the 26 passengers aboard a Savannah-bound Amtrak passenger train was hurt when it collided with an SUV at a crossing in Garden City, Georgia on 15 April. The 49-year-old driver of the vehicle,...
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Late in April a man in a motorised wheelchair rolled off the platform at a Washington DC station and landed on the track. A 66-year-old neurologist visitor from Charlottetown, quickly verifying that...
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The 65-year-old driver of an 18-wheel rig died on 8 April when it was hit by a train near Rockdale in Milam County, Texas. Reportedly the vehicle turned off the highway onto a private road crossing...
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An Amtrak passenger train with 128 passengers on board crashed into a car left on the line in Allendale County, South Carolina. Fortunately no one was hurt. The two men who dumped the car reportedly...
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Commuter service on Washington DC's Green Line was disrupted on 15 April when a contractor's crane collided with a 17-metre-long concrete bridge which fell onto the four tracks it spanned. The...
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Streets were closed in Colorado Springs, Colorado on 13 April and about 70 people were asked to close windows and doors and remain indoors following the derailing of seven wagons in a Burlington...
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