On 24 July, an eight-coach Spanish express from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast with 218 passengers aboard derailed on a curve at Santiago de Compostela and smashed into a lineside concrete...
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CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS ' the Italian state railway) Mauro Moretti is one of 33 people who have been charged as a sequel to the horrific tankcar derailment and subsequent explosion on 29 June...
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The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA), whose 72-tankwagon runaway at Lac-Mégantic in eastern Canada caused havoc on 6 July, has been in the news before. Only two weeks previously, the fuel tank...
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Before dawn on Thursday 18 July, the locomotive and nine wagons in a freight train bound for Tucson, Arizona, from Dallas in Texas derailed near Aledo, about 24km south-west of Fort Worth, North...
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On 15 July, 22 out of 42 loaded wagons in a coal train came off the track on Mozambique's Sena Line. The incident took place in the central Mozambican province of Sofala at Magagade in the district of...
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The initial findings by Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF - the French national railway) following the 12 July fatal derailment at Bretigny-sur-Orge near Paris suggest that a broken...
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Eight people were taken to hospital with reportedly minor injuries after a passenger train from Great Yarmouth operated by the Greater Anglia company ran at low speed into an empty, stationary set of...
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The United States' National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) notes that, in 2009, 69% of tankcars in the country were type DOT-111A. In Canada, where the same vehicle is designated CTC-111A), it...
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Senior media relations' adviser with Transport Canada Maryse Durette told the Montreal Gazette that regulatory action in terms of the [Canadian] Rail Safety Act might be applied 'if the parameters for...
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The collapse of a road bridge section over the Skagit River in Washington State on 23 May closed the key Interstate north-south Highway 5 (Vancouver to Seattle and Portland, Oregon). According to...
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