On 24 December a freight train passing through the Zastava-1 station in Odessa, Ukraine, apparently triggered an explosion which damaged rails and sleepers, though there was no derailment. A...
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Two occupants of a van died instantly on 29 December in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after the vehicle collided with a train. Four others died later in hospital and 'about a dozen' were reportedly hurt in the...
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On 26 December, 15 wagons in a Canadian Pacific freight train derailed on a bridge crossing 40 Mile Creek near Banff town in the Banff National Park. Seven vehicles fell into the water, spilling grain...
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After finishing her shift at the Irish Embassy Bar in downtown Montreal in the early hours of 8 December, 22-year-old student Sarah Stott took a short cut across the railway. There was a stationary...
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On 16 December, a nine-wagon eastbound Union Pacific train ran off the track in the Hart Flat area of Kern County in California. No injuries or hazardous cargo were reported, but extensive track...
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Then there was the cemetery with overloading problems during December, when there was only a skeleton staff left on duty....
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Two people were reported fatally injured on 12 December and eight others hospitalised locally when India's Khulna-bound Sundarban Express to Khulma collided with a three-wheel “tom-tom” vehicle on the...
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Eleven sleepers and a refreshment car on the Poorva Express to New Delhi derailed at slow speed on 13 December while entering Liluah station, soon after leaving Howrah. No injuries were reported, but...
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Sunday 14 December ended unhappily for a 37-year-old cyclist in Camden, Delaware, who stopped at a crossing while a lengthy Norfolk Southern freight train of 128 wagons went slowly through. The man on...
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Late on Friday 5 December, police were called to a Chicago-to-Port Huron Amtrak train at Niles in Michigan, about 16km north of South Bend, Indiana. There was commotion in a coach where a man had...
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