Sustained heavy floods that severed numerous rail corridors in Colorado in mid-September halted traffic on some important lines for several weeks, necessitating substantial repair work. Managing...
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Shortly after 07:00 on Saturday 19 October, a commuter passenger train overshot the end of the line in a dead-end platform at Once station in Buenos Aires, ending up wedged between the floor and...
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On 11 October, the seven-coach northbound Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) passenger train caught fire at Natebe near Livingstone in the country's Southern Province. All the vehicles were badly damaged....
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On 30 September, an empty passenger train parked in a Chicago yard somehow came to life and ran away down the main-line. Fortunately it did not have the opportunity to build up speed. At the first...
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Canadian minister of transport Lisa Raitt recently held discussions about rail safety with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), which represents 2,000 communities across Canada. In a press...
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A storm late on 7 October is blamed for a breakdown in Gautrain service. The Bombela Concession company's Kelebogile Machaka was quoted explaining that the weather caused signalling problems which...
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During the first week of October, according to a radio news report, a 12-year-old girl travelling in a Khayelitsha (Cape Town) train was hit on the head by a rock and died later in hospital. 'At least...
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Richard Branson's Virgin Rail company runs some of the fastest trains in Britain. Curvature on the London-to-Scotland West Coast route is addressed by using rolling stock called Pendolino, which tilts...
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What might have happened' is seldom newsworthy. Maybe that's just as well, because otherwise a minor collision in Chicago on 30 September could have made headlines around the world. An empty passenger...
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The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMAR), whose fuel train ran away in July, causing 47 deaths and massive destruction in the town of Lac-Mégantic, has been given permission to continue...
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