At 18:50 on 29 July 2013, two Swiss Federal Railways passenger trains collided head-on at Granges-près-Marnand, about 30km north of Lausanne on the line from Palézieux to Payerne. Initial reports...
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Evidence sourced from the 'black box' recording device carried on the Spanish train that derailed on 24 July reveals that he was talking on the phone at the moment of the crash, which apparently took...
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On 24 July, an eight-coach Spanish express from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast with 218 passengers aboard derailed on a curve at Santiago de Compostela and smashed into a lineside concrete...
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CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS ' the Italian state railway) Mauro Moretti is one of 33 people who have been charged as a sequel to the horrific tankcar derailment and subsequent explosion on 29 June...
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The initial findings by Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF - the French national railway) following the 12 July fatal derailment at Bretigny-sur-Orge near Paris suggest that a broken...
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Eight people were taken to hospital with reportedly minor injuries after a passenger train from Great Yarmouth operated by the Greater Anglia company ran at low speed into an empty, stationary set of...
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On 12 July, a passenger express from Paris to Limoges, about 400km, was some 20 minutes into the three-hour journey when the third and fourth coaches left the rails while passing through the station...
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The biggest advantage of not privatising a railway is that one always knows who to blame ' the government. In Britain's convoluted passenger rail set-up, there's always someone else to blame. The...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued a preliminary report on a fatal accident at Athelney automatic half-barrier level crossing, near Taunton, Somerset. At about 06:23 on 21...
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Britain's Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is investigating an incident in which a tram departed from two consecutive tram stops in Croydon with all four doors on one side open. Nobody was...
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