The overnight passenger train to Harare with 120 travellers on board derailed eight of its eleven coaches at Heany Junction, 30km east of Bulawayo, on Saturday night 23 August. Twenty-two people were...
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Western Cape Metrorail Regional manager Richard Walker says vandalism and theft account for about a tenth of train delays and cost the company about R382 million over the past three years. He was...
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Two coaches of a train on the Longleat Adventure Park miniature railway near Warminster in Wiltshire derailed and one overturned on 20 August. A woman trapped under the overturned vehicle was rescued...
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The local fire department chief at Steubenville in Jefferson County, Ohio, estimated that nearly 1,000 litres of diesel fuel had leaked beneath the track at the scene of a Norfolk Southern derailment...
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Early on 17 August, two Union Pacific freIght trains collided head-on near Hoxie, Arkansas, about 144km northwest of Memphis, Tennessee. Two men in the leading loco of the 92-wagon southbound train...
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A truck and semi-trailer that stalled on a crossing in Allen Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, were both destroyed when hit by a Norfolk Southern freight train on 22 August. When the gates came down, the...
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Those incredible Swiss railways, clawing their way up and down and through mountains, seem awfully prone to accidents, yet almost never have one. When they do, as on 13 August, they do it in style. A...
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Sensational CCTV photos published on 11 August showed an infant in a pushchair which landed on a London underground track at Goodge Street station. Apparently a man parked the chair on the platform at...
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Police in York are looking for a truck driver who came close to a nasty encounter with a train. Witnesses reported a high goods vehicle trying to enter the Wigginton Road level crossing as the gates...
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On 13 August, a Metro Rail Transit (MRT) train stalled between the Magallanes and Taft Avenue stations in Manila, reportedly due to power problems. The following train moved forward, coupled and...
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