TWELVE CARRY CAN FOR CHINESE METRO CRASH

A dozen employees have been penalised since last month's metro crash in Shanghai that injured nearly 300 people. The city's safety agency says the accident was the result of negligence, inadequate...

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THREE DIE IN SRI LANKA COLLISION

The driver and his assistant died on 18 September when their passenger train ran into and badly damaged the observation car at the rear of another train near the station at Alawwa, Sri Lanka, about...

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SHANGHAI INDERGROUND COLLISION

Altogether 284 people were reported hurt after an underground train rear-ended another in Shanghai on 27 September. Shanghai Shentong Metro Company (SSMC), the city's subway operator, said the crash...

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TEN DIE IN INDIAN COLLISION

On 13 September, 10 people died and more than 70 were injured near Arakkonam in the Vellore district, southern India, when a suburban train from Chennai (Madras) Beach to Vellore ran into a...

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INDIAN EARTHQUAKE SLOWS TRAINS

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit Sikkim and several areas in the eastern part of India and neighbouring Nepal, leaving at least 18 dead and over 100 injured besides causing...

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MUMBAI MONORAIL CONSTRUCTION FATALITIES

During July, a beam weighing 60 tonnes collapsed at the monorail construction site on RCF Road in Mumbai's Chembur, killing two persons and injuring three. A partial monorail trial run on the Mysore...

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FATAL COLLISION IN WEST BENGAL

At least three people were killed and 200 injured when the locomotive and several coaches of the Guwahati to Bangalore express derailed and were hit by another train in the Malda district of West...

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CHINESE HIGH-SPEED COLLISION

On 23 July, the world's first fatal train accident on a dedicated high-speed line (and high-speed lines go back 46 years) occurred in China. Early reports spoke of 43 passengers dead and more than 200...

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MANILA LRT MISHAPS

Manila: A congressman in the Philippines is asking the parliamentary transport committee to look into the frequent breakdowns plaguing Metro Manila's elevated light railway system, saying a probe is...

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INDIA: 69 DIE IN TWO DERAILMENTS

According to Agence France-Presse, 'nearly a dozen carriages' of the Kalka Mail (Howrah to New Delhi) jumped the rails in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh. 'The force of the derailment caused...

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