The First Great Western company in the UK apologised to passengers after a Penzance to London Paddington train with nearly 500 on board was stranded near Pewsey, Wiltshire for some six hours by a...
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On 3 August, an eight-coach Bangkok-Chiang Mai passenger train derailed at 04:30 in the Ban Khao Phlueng tunnel, Uttaradit Muang district. The Thailand railway reported that there were 302 people on...
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Peak hour Buenos Aires suburban train services came to a halt on 1 August when drivers went on strike. The union claimed that salaries were in dispute but Argentine interior and transport minister...
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In the aftermath of the fuel train runaway in Lac-Mégantic on 6 July, Quebec environment minister Yves-Francois Blanchet invoked powers in terms of Canadian provincial legislation to place financial...
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Cable theft remains a huge problem in South Africa, the main victims being Telkom, Eskom and the railways. Whole areas get cut off when key phone lines are stolen, while suburban commuter services '...
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At 18:50 on 29 July 2013, two Swiss Federal Railways passenger trains collided head-on at Granges-près-Marnand, about 30km north of Lausanne on the line from Palézieux to Payerne. Initial reports...
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Evidence sourced from the 'black box' recording device carried on the Spanish train that derailed on 24 July reveals that he was talking on the phone at the moment of the crash, which apparently took...
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In the aftermath of the horrendous Lac Mégantic runaway, Transport Canada has issued an emergency directive banning the transport of dangerous goods in trains worked by a single-person crew. Also,...
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According to Canadian National Railway (CN) CEO Claude Mongeau, regulations should not be changed until investigations into the Lac Mégantic incident are completed. The reasons for what happened, he...
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In the course of a shunting move in the city of Denver, Colorado, on 23 July, four tankcars failed to stop on a dead-end into a light industrial building. They broke through the back of the building,...
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