Early in December, a road tanker truck ignored the descending barrier at a crossing in South Jakarta, Indonesia, endeavouring to cross the line in front of an approaching commuter train. In the...
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On 26 December, four coaches of the Jhajha-Patna Passenger Memu train derailed at Rampur Dumra station. No injuries were reported but both Up and Down lines were blocked, disrupting services. A...
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The BBC reported an unusual incident early in January when the pantograph of an electric train on the Thameslink line, bound for Sevenoaks, lost contact with the overhead wires and hit the tunnel roof...
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On Monday 30 December 2013, a westbound BNSF grain train derailed near Casselton, a small town in North Dakota, and wreckage fell onto the adjacent track. This caused the two locomotives and 21...
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According to a report on Canadian television, a Quebec passenger train running from Sept-Iles to Schefferville was stalled for eight hours at temperatures between minus 26C and minus 33C before fire...
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On 5 January, the locomotive of an Amtrak passenger train lost power during freezing weather in south-western Michigan. The passengers were left stranded aboard for more than eight hours, but did have...
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According to the Tanzania Daily News (published in Dar es Salaam), 1,600 Tanzania Railway Limited (TRL) passengers remained stranded at Dodoma on 10 January, 'following railway mishaps at Gulwe and...
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Hundreds' of passengers bound for Mombasa were reportedly stranded overnight on 14 January after the goods train preceding theirs derailed in the Taru area, blocking the line. Railway officials quoted...
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Metrorail commuter services were disrupted in both Cape Town and Pretoria on 15 January. According to radio news reports, early morning services on the Central Line in the peninsula came to a...
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According to a Times of India report on 8 January, nine people died when fire broke out in a passenger train shortly after it left Mumbai on an overnight journey to the northern city of Dehradun. The...
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