It took a week to restore rail service at Kankool between Murrurundi and Willow Tree in the New South Wales Upper Hunter after 19 empty coal wagons came off the track on 16 February. Export coal...
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The Romanian Rail Safety Authority (ASFR), perturbed by a 'spate of accidents', recently revoked a section of a prominent operator's safety certificate. This resulted in Regiotrains ' second biggest...
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The locomotive and two coaches of India's Dehradun-Varanasi Janata Express derailed on 20 March at the Bachhrawan station in Raebareli, about 50km from Lucknow, the state capital of Uttar Pradesh....
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Concern over possible methanol leaks resulted in 10 homes being evacuated at Valley Mills, 40km north-west of Waco, Texas, following the derailing of 10 wagons in a freight train on 21 March. Five of...
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On 12 February, 26 wagons in an eastbound Union Pacific coal train from Wyoming derailed near Bayard, Nebraska. Both lines were blocked by 'tangled wreckage and scattered coal'. No members of the...
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In yet another serious crossing collision and derailment in America, 55 train passengers were injured on 9 March at Halifax, North Carolina. A 50-metre combination tractor and trailer carrying a...
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Late on 10 March, a southbound passenger train collided with a truck carrying rock and derailed at a crossing near Dong Ha station in Quang Tri Province, in central Vietnam. The diesel locomotive was...
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Two Union Pacific freight trains derailed on 2 March in Oregon, one in the Cascades mountains and the other in the Blue Mountain range. Ten wagons came off the track near Meacham in Umatilla County,...
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Near Cranberry on 11 March, about 50km north-east of Brandon on Canadian National Railway's main-line in western Manitoba, 13 wagons left the track. Reportedly some 30,000 litres of bitumen spilled...
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The cause of a power failure which shut down Gautrain's airport line was not immediately ascertained. The outage occurred on the afternoon of 12 March, putting the airport service out of action....
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