Over a distance of about 3km, a railway parallels the Route 41 North Plain Road through the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It is a hazardous arrangement, as a number of residential driveways...
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A freight train operated by the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Railway (BBR) derailed on 26 November near Thompson Junction on the Victoria Falls line of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ). No details could...
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Only one bogie derailed on a UK passenger train but it happened on the busy four-track main-line between London and Milton Keynes. Seventeen buses were laid on to transport stranded passengers. The...
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Heavy snowfalls and strong winds reportedly disrupted UK rail traffic late in the first week of December. Temperatures fell to below freezing. A Daily Mail photo showed a diesel-hauled passenger train...
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A West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) freight train carrying bauxite derailed near St Catherine in Jamaica on 2 November. Press reports gave no detail, saying only that no injuries were reported....
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On 30 November, some four kilometres of Highway 90 near Wilmer in Santa Rosa County, Florida were closed for more than 24 hours following the derailing of about 20 out of 84 wagons in a CSX freight...
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On 1 December, 32 out of 92 wagons in a Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight train came off the track near Bluffton, between New York Mills and Wadena in Minnesota. Tankcars were involved but...
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Two Queensland Rail (QR) passenger trains were forced to stop between stations in Brisbane on 27 November when they were pelted with hailstones 'the size of cricket balls' in the course of a massive...
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Radio bulletins on Friday 28 November reported delays on Metrorail's Simon's Town line. During the course of 27 and 28 November, the 'GoMetro' webpage warned first of delays at Simon's Town due to...
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On 24 November, at a snow-covered crossing between the Kondratovka and Petropavlovsk stations on Kazakhstan's South Urals Railway, trains passing in opposite directions sandwiched a large truck which...
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