On 13 March, a Swiss regional train ran into a stationary empty set at Geneva Airport station, causing slight damage. It wasn't serious and nobody was hurt but it followed a number of other accidents...
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Shortly after 07:00 on 5 March, fire broke out in the leading locomotive of two hauling a Union Pacific freight train travelling from St Paul, Minnesota, to North Platte, Nebraska. The incident...
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The assistant driver of a freight train died in hospital following a derailment in Namibia on 7 March and the driver sustained serious injuries. The 35-wagon consist was carrying manganese ore from...
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A massive power failure at the end of February stranded Metrorail trains and knocked out signalling throughout the length of the Cape Town-Simon's Town suburban line. Press photos showed commuters who...
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Suburban passenger train service into Nairobi from Kibera, Gatekwera and Kikuyu was suspended on 18 March following a derailment at Kibera outside the city. Commuters were advised to use alternative...
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Early in March, the driver of a train from London's Moorgate to Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire saw muddy water pouring into the tunnel near Old Street station, a section used by two million city...
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India's Deccan Herald reported recently that a passenger train travelling from Madurai to Shencottah was delayed more than an hour after a peacock entered the driver's cab and ”attacked” the assistant...
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More people are killed trespassing on the railway in the United States than in level crossing collisions. Vehicle-train collisions and injuries at level crossings decreased 5.1% to 1,953 in 2012 but...
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The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) had 200 reported landslides in the Pacific North-west since October 2012, specifically in the section between Everett and Seattle. Improvements costing...
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America's national Route 5 Highway was closed on 22 February near West Springfield in Massachusetts following the derailing of two tankcars on the adjoining railway. One of the vehicles contained...
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