In an unprecedented situation, train services on the busy north-east corridor north of New York were severely disrupted following a substation failure on 25 September. The high-speed Acela service...
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According to a recent study issued by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Urban Transportation Centre (UTC). Increased education and enforcement efforts by municipalities and public transport...
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During the first week of October, the British Transport Police released video footage of a female cyclist who rode around a lowered level crossing barrier and was 'within seconds' of being hit by a...
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It was reported on 7 October that a cyclone with wind speeds of 150km/h was disrupting train services in China....
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On 31 January 2013, a six-coach Brisbane suburban electric multiple-unit train mounted the concrete stop block at a Cleveland dead-end and smashed into the recently refurbished station building. Ten...
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On 25 September, a power supply problem attributed to a faulty high-voltage feeder cable knocked out New York city's busy Metro-North commuter service to New Haven. Amtrak intercity trains, including...
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The horrific fuel train runaway, derailment and subsequent explosions in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec (death toll 47), have been a wake-up call to communities across Canada. At White Rock south of Vancouver,...
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A Ukraine couple who literally made love on the line won't be doing it again. She died under a train and he lost both legs. Police at Zaporitzia in the south-east of the country quoted the survivor...
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Chicago is known deservedly as America's 'windy city'. On the night of 18 September, seven wagons in a Union Pacific freight train were blown off the line on the city's West Side. Incredibly, each was...
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Floods in the North American state of Colorado in mid-September caused serious damage to the Union Pacific (UP) and Burlington Northern Santa (BNSF) railways. It was not expected that freight trains...
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