Officially only one person was slightly injured when a light rail train came off the track in Portland, Oregon, on 15 August. But passenger Chelsea Gutierrez told a local television station that both...
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Protestors opposed to trains conveying Bakken crude oil through North-west USA communities locked their arms to barrels filled with concrete, which had been placed on the track accessing Tesoro's...
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In less than 24 hours after an incident at Stirling station in Perth, Western Australia, millions around the world had viewed the dramatic images. A man boarding a train somehow had his leg fall into...
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Three people died on 9 August and 10 were hurt when the vehicle in which they were travelling entered a level crossing near Yasinpur station in Natore, Bangladesh, and was hit by the Barendra Express....
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On 2 Aug 2014, near Mannheim in Germany, 35 people were reported hurt - four seriously - when five coaches of a Saarbrucken-bound passenger train from Graz in Austria derailed after it collided with a...
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A freight train that stalled just after midnight on Saturday 9 August in the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, somehow derailed 'about 20 wagons', waking the neighbourhood, when it tried to restart....
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Three teenagers in an SUV somehow managed to roll it on Interstate 25 in Pueblo, Colorado, on 10 August at a point where the highway runs beside the railway. An 18-year-old who was literally hurled...
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Two people died on 8 August when they drove around lowered level crossing booms in Gary, Indiana, and were hit by a Chicago-Ohio CSX freight train. A stunned witness, who was behind the car, said the...
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Transnet Freight Rail platelayers are busy restoring the 5km of line stolen in Nigel, 14km south of Springs in Gauteng. The siding links the former Union Carriage & Wagon plant, now owned by rolling...
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Following the recent increase in Nigerian commuter train fares, protesters set fire to the Itoki station, vandalised wagons and stole tickets, phones and money. The police made 100 arrests. Of these,...
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