On 16 February, a bomb blast killed five passengers in Pakistan's Khushhal Khan Khattak express (Karachi to Peshawar), injuring more than 30 - of whom two died in hospital - and damaging 800 metres of...
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On 14 February, all train services west of Plymouth had to be cancelled following a massive storm with winds up to 180km/h, which brought down huge trees. The First Great Western passenger rail...
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Train services in New Zealand's South Island have been held up on unusually hot days during the summer, due to the rails ‘overheating’. According to the Greymouth Star, rail temperatures up to 43°C...
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Heavy snowfalls characterised a particularly cold weekend in Japan on 15 and 16 February. Air services were disrupted and many highways across the country were closed. The Central Japan and West Japan...
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Snowstorms disrupted journeys for millions of train travellers in North and East China from 13 February, when 'red alerts' for blizzards went out. High-speed services from Beijing to Guangzhou,...
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Four tankcars in a 23-wagon freight train en route from Waycross in Georgia to Mobile, Alabama, derailed near Molino, Florida, during a massive storm on 5 February. An estimated 135,000 litres of...
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According to Rapport, one of the locomotives hauling the Blue Train caught fire and burned out near Kimberley on 8 February. The newspaper published a colour photo of the fire.
Presumably this was a...
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On the night of 2 February, 200 steel pandrol clips were removed from more than 60 metres of main-line track between Mazabuka and Lubombo in Zambia. Had a train arrived before the damage was detected,...
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One of the most scenic sections of main-line railway in England, that to Cornwall which runs along the 'sea wall' at Dawlish in Devon, has been closed to all traffic for at least six weeks following...
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A huge rock, described as being 'the size of a car', fell onto and derailed a two-coach diesel passenger train in the French Maritime Alps northwest of Nice on 8 February. Two of the 34 mostly...
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