Nineteen wagons in a westbound freight train derailed on 3 July about 16km west of Alberton in western Montana. Six flatcars were carrying Boeing 737 fuselages and three of those landed
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On 13 July during a storm, one of three monorail trains was stranded without power several metres above ground at Disney World in Florida. Passengers said the train stopped after they saw a lightning...
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A tourist from overseas died and about 20 were hurt on 1 July when a freight train from Thomson Junction hauled by diesel-electric class DE10A 1044 ran into the sightseeing tram at Victoria Falls...
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On 4 July, a flatbed rig carrying a dumper stalled on a crossing at Talhausen, south of Stuttgart in Germany. An approaching train was unable to stop short of the crossing and 31 passengers on board...
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A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed 15 wagons in Lucas County, Ohio on 3 July. Twelve spilled their contents. People living near the line were evacuated because of liquid running out of tankcars...
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On 3 July, one freight train ran into the rear of another in Sewickley, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Three locomotives and one wagon came off the track. The leading train comprised two...
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Rosie Madison (80) travelled on Amtrak from New York to visit her niece, Cynthia Burton, in Dallas, Texas. Shortly before 11:30 when the train was due to arrive, Burton was told by Amtrak that her...
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On 26 June, Shosholoza Meyl's intercity train from Johannesburg derailed immediately after moving from the Down main-line onto a platform approach track at Port Elizabeth station. Class 7E loco E7003...
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On 29 June, a 14-year-old schoolboy was robbed and pushed off a moving train near Warner Beach on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. Paramedics took him to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries...
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On 25 June, 12 coaches of the Dibrugarh-bound Rajdhani Express derailed near Chapra in the eastern India state of Bihar (about 75km from Patna), and five overturned. Four people died and eight were...
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