Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board into the 12 January incident in Washington DC, when commuters spent 30 minutes in a dark, smoke-filled, stalled underground train, have...
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An 18-year-old Kenyan found lying beside the railway at Mwandaa on 2 February, missing his right arm and a leg, was rushed to the Bungoma referral hospital. Daniel Nawate was due to start form one,...
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On 28 January, the busy St Pancras to Farringdon line under central London had to be closed due to flooding in the tunnel. More than a million litres of water were pumped out after a main burst, and...
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On 4 February, the derailing of two Canadian Pacific Railway locos and 13 wagons in a remote location north of Dubuque in eastern Iowa saw ethanol discharged into the frozen Mississippi River. Three...
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On Monday morning 2 February, a Manhattan-bound train stalled near Queensboro Plaza, trapping four other commuter trains behind it. The metropolitan transport authority was unable to discover the...
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On the afternoon of 29 January, the trailing motor coach of an inbound Metrorail commuter train from Wellington derailed on trailing points at Brackenfell, 6.6km beyond Bellville (25.7km from Cape...
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On 17 January, a car and train were in collision at the Bergkelder crossing in Stellenbosch. One person in the car was killed and two others were taken to hospital. The reason for the accident was not...
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On 27 January it was reported that 12 metres of rail together with 10 steel sleepers had been removed from Steenbras siding, a short distance past the summit of Sir Lowrys Pass between Cape Town and...
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Smoke in the Channel Tunnel linking England and France caused closure of the facility to all passenger and freight traffic on 17 January 2015. Operator Eurostar said tickets could be refunded or...
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Local rail accidents in Mumbai - including suicides - claimed nine lives and eight people were injured per day in 2014. A total of 2,221 deaths occurred on the Central Railway (CR) and 1,202 on the...
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