A child died and many people were injured when four coaches of the Lahore-bound Shalimar Express derailed 10 kilometres from Ghagar Phatak near Karachi, following a powerful explosion on 4 February....
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Seven out of 152 wagons in a Canadian National Railway (CN) freight train derailed near Burnaby Lake in British Columbia on 12 January. Four remained upright but the others overturned, spilling coal...
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On 7 January, 19 tankcars in a 122-wagon train derailed at Plaster Rock in New Brunswick (eastern Canada), 32km from the border with Maine in the USA. Three tankcars carrying liquefied petroleum gas...
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On 31 January, highways were closed at New Augusta, a small town in south-eastern Mississippi, when tankcars in a freight train derailed. Though nobody was injured in the accident, some 50 people were...
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On 29 January, a 48-year-old Montreal commuter died in a freak accident at an underground rail station, when her scarf reportedly caught in an escalator. Press coverage of the incident based on...
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According to a BBC report, workers filling cracks with wet concrete at Victoria station on the London underground 'rushed to buy sugar', to slow down the setting action. This was when 'about three...
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On 19 January, a bomb exploded 680 metres from the Ban Cha-am station on the railway in Thailand. No injuries were reported, but train services were delayed for some time. Reports in the Pattaya Mail...
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Australia's ABC News reports that 700 passengers were evacuated from a peak-hour Sydney commuter train after a coach derailed near Edgecliff. Sydney Trains CEO Howard Collins was quoted saying a piece...
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The locomotive and several wagons derailed on 17 November during a shunting movement at Bulls Gap in Hawkins County, Tennessee, on the Southern Railroad. Fortunately the last four vehicles - tankcars...
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On 23 January, the brakes failed on a freight train from Cuamba headed to Nampula. It ran away downgrade out of control and at Iapala station (in Ribaue district) slammed into the rear of the...
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