Nine Russian tankcars carrying crude oil derailed on 22 June near the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk. One wagon overturned. Nobody was injured and no spill was reported....
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On 21 June, a fraction under 50mm of rain fell in an hour in the Japanese city of Ibusuki. A landslide derailed a sightseeing train on the Kyushu Railway company's Ibusuki-Makurazaki line, reportedly...
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On 23 June, eight wagons in a Union Pacific freight train derailed beneath a highway bridge near Navasota, Texas. One of the derailed wagons was a tankcar containing diethanolamine, a substance...
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Mexico City's 25km metro Line 12 opened in October 2012, but part has been closed since March 2014, when it was determined that six metro coaches were the cause of serious track damage. French experts...
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A policeman and four others described as conscripts were injured on 16 June when an Egyptian freight train carrying military vehicles derailed in Beheira's Kafr al-Dawar. Seven other trains were...
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On 22 June, five coaches of a Muri-Dhanbad passenger train derailed near Radhagaon station, 8km from Bokaro in India. Nobody was injured as the train was travelling slowly but services were seriously...
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On 9 June, police evacuated people living within 2.5km of a derailment at West River Station, a rural area about 150km north-east of Halifax in Canada's Nova Scotia. The 26th and six following...
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The provincial government in Quebec is claiming $409 million from the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMAR) for expenses incurred in cleaning up the badly damaged town of Lac-Mégantic, following...
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In June 2013, it was learned that criminals intended to steal copper wire from the railway overhead on a certain night. A task team was
deployed in the area where the theft was planned and an...
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On 7 June, a vehicle carrying a party returning after a wedding collided with a freight train at the Rajghat crossing near Bettiah, about 200km from Patna in Bihar, India. Four people died on the spot...
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