RAILWORKERS IN NEAR MISS

An investigation has found that nine rail workers were just seconds away from being hit by a passenger train with no warning of it approaching at almost 160km/h. The track staff were working on a bend...

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DERAILMENT AT GODMERSHAM

At approximately 21:40 on 26 July, the 20:10 train from Charing Cross to Ramsgate travelling at approximately 110 km/h struck a number of cows that had gained access to the railway at Godmersham,...

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LANGWORTH DERAILMENT

Train 6E54 was the 10:39 from Kingsbury Oil Terminal to Humber Oil Refinery, consisting of a class 60 locomotive and 22 empty, diesel fuel, tank wagons. The train was travelling at approximately 77...

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TRAIN PASSENGERS DIE AT CZECH CROSSING

On 22 July, three passengers died in a fast passenger train travelling from Bohumin to Frantiskovy Lazne when it collided with a truck on a crossing at Studenka, in the east of the Czech...

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REAR-ENDER IN VIRGINIA

On 14 July, a westbound Norfolk Southern freight train consisting of three locomotives and 54 wagons had its last five vehicles (fortunately all empty) derailed when hit from behind by another train....

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DERAILMENT IN SOUTH-EAST LONDON

On 3 June a train comprising 22 empty wagons hauled by a class 66 diesel locomotive derailed at low speed on a curved section of the single line linking sidings to the North Kent line at Angerstein...

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TRAIN DRIVER SEVERELY SHOCKED

The British Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) recently released its report on an incident at Sutton Weaver in Cheshire in which a train driver received a severe electric shock. Apparently one...

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SPAD HALTS UK STEAM TRAINS

On 7 March 2015, a steam-hauled passenger train operated by the West Coast Railway Company (WCRC) - which is said to run 90% of charter trains in Britain - overshot a red signal and only came to a...

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TWO DIE IN GERMAN CROSSING COLLISION

Two people aboard a passenger train were killed on 16 May when it hit a truck and trailer apparently stuck fast on a crossing near Ibbenbueren, about 23km west of Osnabruck in Germany.  About 20...

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HEATHROW EXPRESS DERAILMENT

The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into the derailing of a Heathrow Express trainset at London's Paddington station on25 May 2014. At around 05:20 on Sunday 25...

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