Early on 20 May, a freight train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) rear-ended a Union Pacific (UP) freight on UP tracks near Tehachapi in California, derailing a locomotive and four...
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At 08:00 on 3 May, more than 20 wagons conveying sand derailed in Lytle, Texas, due to a broken fishplate. Union Pacific officials told the press that a workcrew had been scheduled to attend to the...
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Two Transnet Freight Rail goods trains collided at Brakpan on Gauteng's East Rand on 21 May. Photos (see next issue of Railways Africa magazine) showed a class 36 diesel locomotive ' 36 096 - on its...
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Three men fleeing from a patrol on 23 May ran across one line of a double track section near Durban's KwaMashu after a train passed but fell in front of another train on the second track. All three...
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In the worst accident since Hong Kong's light rail system began operations in 1988, a two-coach trainset derailed on 18 May injuring 77, 4 badly. More than 150 people were on board. The train was...
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An electric suburban train on New York's Metro-North line derailed near Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the Friday 17 May evening peak hour and was hit by a commuter train travelling in the opposite...
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On 15 May, 12 wagons carrying sulphur in a southbound Canadian National train left the track near Chetwynd in north-east British Columbia. Eight vehicles fell onto their sides but the others remained...
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Reconstruction of historic arch bridges over the Shawsheen River in Andover, Massachusetts by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority prevented Amtrak's Downeaster express from reaching Boston...
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Well, that was the heading in the Diamond Field's Advertiser, though it would have been a strange finding if it wasn't dead. GWK employee Thomas Papier, 48, went missing for two days before his body...
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Britain's Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is investigating an incident in which a tram departed from two consecutive tram stops in Croydon with all four doors on one side open. Nobody was...
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