On 19 January, a bomb exploded 680 metres from the Ban Cha-am station on the railway in Thailand. No injuries were reported, but train services were delayed for some time. Reports in the Pattaya Mail...
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According to a Times of India report on 8 January, nine people died when fire broke out in a passenger train shortly after it left Mumbai on an overnight journey to the northern city of Dehradun. The...
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On 26 November, four maintenance workers were killed and one was injured by a high-speed Chinese train, reportedly running 11 minutes behind time. The authorities blamed what they termed a...
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Following torrential rains in many parts of South Thailand on 20 November, all train services were temporarily suspended to and from Hat Yai in this southern province and Sungai Kolok in nearby...
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Two people died on 31 October when a coach in the Dhaka-Chittagong mail train derailed near Akhaura junction in the north-eastern Brahmanbaria district. Forty were reported hurt, many of whom were...
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A train from Xining, the Qinghai provincial capital, ran into an empty passenger set that had been incorrectly routed at the East Golmud station in a remote Himalayan region. It was reported that one...
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On 24 October, one person died when a train ran into a road truck loaded with coal at a crossing in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang province. The train was said to have incurred considerable damage, but no...
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It was reported on 7 October that a cyclone with wind speeds of 150km/h was disrupting train services in China....
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On 3 August, an eight-coach Bangkok-Chiang Mai passenger train derailed at 04:30 in the Ban Khao Phlueng tunnel, Uttaradit Muang district. The Thailand railway reported that there were 302 people on...
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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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