To repair extensive damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York City Transit is to close two subway tunnels for lengthy periods soon. The Greenpoint tunnel, used by the G train under Newtown Creek...
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It doesn't only happen in South Africa. According to the Press Trust of India: “Train services were disrupted…in the Jagadalpur-Kirandul section of the … East Coast Railway (ECoR) as miscreants...
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On 28 May, a garbage truck that drove into a 45-wagon New York-Georgia freight train on a crossing in Rosedale, Maryland, a suburb east of Baltimore, caused a number of wagons to derail. Four of these...
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Miraculously, no one was killed in a spectacular accident at about 02:20 on 25 May near Rockville in eastern Missouri. A freight train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), carrying...
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In a bizarre incident on 1 July, a turkey crashed through the windscreen of an Amtrak passenger train at Mansfield, Massachusetts, injuring the driver. He was taken to the Sturdy Memorial Hospital in...
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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). To assist...
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An extraordinarily detailed report on a level crossing accident appeared in the Tanzania Daily News (a Dar es Salaam paper) on 29 May. A commuter train hit a car near Moshi Bar at Ukonga in Dar es...
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On 28 May, a man described in press reports as a vagrant who had been sleeping on the deck above Cape Town's main station fell during the night onto the 3kV overhead traction wires, being instantly...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued a preliminary report on a fatal accident at Athelney automatic half-barrier level crossing, near Taunton, Somerset. At about 06:23 on 21...
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On 9 May, two Union Pacific trains - one conveying coal, the other containers - collided on the main-line in Iowa near Grand Junction, some 96km north of Des Moines. Twenty wagons were reported off...
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