A drunk 24-year-old, whose car was smashed beyond recognition while being dragged 100 metres, climbed out unharmed. What was left of the car caught fire and burned out. The undamaged train proceeded...
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One of the problems with allowing access to rail lines by entities other than the system owner - a concept currently fashionable in many western countries - is apportioning blame after something goes...
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It took five units of heavy lifting equipment to right six wagons that went off the line on 13 April in Upper Mount Bethel Township in eastern Pennsylvania. Each was carrying 100 tons of sand. It was...
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Six wagons in a train of 45 came off the track on 13 April in Upper Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Three vehicles overturned. The effect of a press report headed dramatically...
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Railways have been around in North America for more than 150 years, yet people still lose their lives walking on the line. According to statistics from the the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA),...
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Estimates of the damage caused at Chicago's O'Hare airport on 24 March have risen to $9.1 million. A commuter train entering the dead-end station beneath the terminal's concourses at 03:00 overshot...
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Little detail is available of a pre-dawn derailment on 13 April in Heilongjiang Province, north-east China. Press reports said 15 people were taken to hospital after a passenger train from Heihe left...
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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has fired the driver of a train that overshot the end of the line at O'Hare Airport on 24 March and climbed halfway up a platform escalator. Apparently, she failed...
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A serious derailment at Molteno, 306km from East London on the 25kV AC main-line to Springfontein, turned over two class 34 diesel-electrics and halted all traffic. It appears that significant theft...
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It was reported on 1 April that a Transnet Freight Rail train derailed near Reebok (on the coast 16km east of Mossel Bay). Vandalised track ' notably stolen rail fastenings ' is believed to have been...
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