On 7 January, 23 wagons in a Canadian National train of 114 derailed about 40km west of Wainwright in Canada's Alberta. The consist was headed from Edmonton to Saskatoon. No injuries were reported and...
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On the evening of 5 January, one passenger train ran into the rear of another (stationary) set at Mesquita near Rio de Janeiro. Press reports said 129 people were admitted to hospital, though most...
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On 2 January, a 28-year-old police officer died in hospital after being pushed off the platform and hit by a train at Embajadores station in the centre of Madrid. His assailant, thought to be an...
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Atocha station in the centre of Madrid, where 191 people were killed in a terrorist attack in 2004, was evacuated on 2 January 2014 following a bomb threat. Police sealed off the complex for several...
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In a horror collision on 6 January, a schoolbus that failed to stop at a crossing in Larimore, about 160km from Fargo in North Dakota, was hit by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) freight,...
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During a routine inspection of a Union Pacific train in a yard at Pittsburg, California, on the evening of 7 January, a small leak from a tankcar was detected. As the train comprised 30 wagons...
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On 17 December, a Metro-North train with 20 passengers that had just pulled away from New York's Grand Central Terminal received a slight corner bump at slow speed from a light locomotive that ran a...
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The generator van of a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train from Bulawayo caught fire a short distance from Harare on 4 January and burned out at Somersby siding despite attention from...
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Dense fog on 22 December caused extensive disruption to South Eastern Railway services in India's Ranchi district. Apparently due to the restricted visibility, one goods train ran into another,...
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Buses were brought in to replace train services between Dumfries and Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland, on 21 December, when tracks were submerged by floodwater. The 22:12 Glasgow Central to...
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