Four railway employees sustained burns while uncoupling a burning locomotive from the rest of its 50-wagon train - mostly tankcars loaded with diesel fuel. The incident took place on 28 November...
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There have been several incidents in various countries of commuter trains failing to stop before hitting the buffers in a terminal station. The latest was at Chester, UK on 20 November. As the case of...
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On 26 November, four maintenance workers were killed and one was injured by a high-speed Chinese train, reportedly running 11 minutes behind time. The authorities blamed what they termed a...
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On 1 December 2013, the 05:54 Metro-North (New York) commuter train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan's Grand Central station derailed at speed on a curve near Spuyten Duyvil station
in the Bronx area....
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Two people died and 13 were badly hurt on 24 November when the driver of a minibus-taxi from Umhlanga lost control of his vehicle as he approached the T-junction of a road-over-railway bridge. The...
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An exceptional storm in Gauteng on 28 November badly disrupted commuter train services in the Friday afternoon peak. Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) COO Mosenngwa Mofi blamed 'old...
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In a horror level crossing accident at Dahshour in Giza on 18 November, 26 people were killed when a train collided with a bus. According to the State Information Service in Cairo, a further 29 people...
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On 16 November, India's luxury Maharaja Express was running through the station at Ghatkopar when a steel plate became dislodged and hit two men standing on the platform. One died at the time and the...
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When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Lac Megantic region in Quebec on 21 November, he promised a government contribution of $95 million towards the town's cleanup cost - 50% of the...
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According to the Bangladesh Financial Express, Phulbari stationmaster MD Abdul Hamid and other staff “fled the scene” after two intercity express trains collided head-on in the station, putting 50...
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