Following a lightning strike during a storm on the afternoon of 11 October, commuters disgruntled by the resultant train delays set fire to rolling stock and vandalised the station offices at...
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In yet another instance of a heavy road rig crashing into a train, 39 passengers in an Amtrak commuter set were hurt in Hanford, California during the afternoon on 1 October. Investigations after the...
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On 1 October, shortly after a truck-trailer combination drove into and derailed a passenger train at Hanford in California (see separate story) a similar collision occurred less than 20km away on the...
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The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is carrying out a preliminary examination into four train accidents caused by landslides at Loch Treig (near Tulloch), Falls of Cruachan, Rosyth and St...
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On 29 September, barely eight days after the first public passenger service operated on Angola's Caminhos de ferro de Moçamedes (CFM) in more than twenty years, two trains collided about 13km west of...
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The driver of a Tanzania -Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) 29-wagon freight train died following a derailment on 19 September. His assistant sustained injuries. The location of the incident was...
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Britain's Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its official (Crown copyright) report: Collapse of the overhead line near to Jewellery Quarter Tram Stop, Midland Metro 20 April...
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A number of serious accidents have been reported around the world recently, involving collisions between trains and heavy road vehicles. Britain's Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) has...
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Nearly-new Sheltam diesel-electric locos 3016 and 3020 are lying out of service at Beira in Mozambique following a recent collision. It is understood they were hauling a freight train on the Sena Line...
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On 28 September, South Africa's Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) released its report on the 19 May 2011 Metrorail train crash in Soweto that injured 857 people.
The investigators found that a train...
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