On 3 July, nine people were hurt when an explosive placed between two coaches was detonated aboard a train on Egypt's Abu-Qir line. It was the first anniversary of former President Mohamed Mursi's...
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A case of theft was opened at Johannesburg's Orlando police station on 11 July after a man with burn wounds was found by a railway technician called to attend a power failure at the New Canada railway...
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Three coaches 'near the front' of a Moscow subway train derailed and jack-knifed on 15 July in a tunnel about 200 metres from the Slavic Boulevard metro stop. According to the RIA Novosti news agency,...
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On 17 July, a French regional TER train carrying 80 passengers ran into the rear of a Tarbes- Bordeaux- Paris Montparnasse high-speed TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) with 175 people on board near the...
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The driver of a train travelling from Sofia to Varna died when the locomotive and four coaches derailed at Kaloyanovets near the central Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora on 12 July. Fifteen people were...
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In a bizarre incident on 29 June, third rail power had to be switched off at Waterloo, an important London terminus, when a man 'clad all in white with a bandana on his head' appeared on the track at...
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On the evening of 8 July, more than 50 people were reported hurt when one Metrorail commuter train ran into another waiting at a red light near Durban's busy Berea Road station. Emergency services had...
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The Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) plant at Nigel in Ekurhuleni is connected to the 37km Springs-Kaydale railway by a lengthy private siding. On 10 July, five men were found on this line by security...
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On 9 July, the locomotive and six tankcars of a freight train carrying furnace oil from Patenga derailed at Uttar Chhalimpur near Faujdarhat in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Three of the wagons spilled an...
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A week before the new Ankara-Istanbul high-speed passenger service was due to start, a test train partially derailed when it collided with a maintenance vehicle near Gebze. Torkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet...
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