On 8 November 2011, the 06:45 commuter train from Charing Cross to Hastings overran Stonegate station in East Sussex by 3.9km. Now the South-Eastern company which operates the service has been fined...
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Highly unusual weather in the north of the UK caused widespread disruption to train services from 27June. While the south of the country basked in 28summer sunshine, a record 110,000 lightning bolts...
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On 11 June, eleven people were hurt when an explosion took place on a tram in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. Two months previously, on 27 April, four bombs planted in rubbish bins exploded in...
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On 5 June, the main north-south St Gotthard Pass railway through the Swiss Alps was shut down after some 3,000 cubic metres came down in a massive rockfall near Gurtnellen. The following day, Swiss...
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A burst water main in east London on 6 June which sent 2 million litres into the Central Line tunnel made Gautrain's problems look like ' well, a drop in the Jukskei River. All services through busy...
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At 17:35 on 24 May, a London underground train (a set specially decorated for the queen's 50-year Jubilee this year) broke down on the Jubilee line between Baker Street and St Johns Wood, a short...
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Londoners were still getting over the 24 May Jubilee line misery when more glitches hit the underground. On the following day ' a Friday ' signal faults at Embankment and Barking delayed thousands of...
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During the night of 28 March, a container ship collided with the Limfjorden railway bridge at Aalborg in Denmark, stranding four IC3 intercity sets and six MR diesel multiple-units. To retrieve the...
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Metal thieves who broke into a railway museum in County Down, Northern Ireland, stole four buffers and three coupling screws from rolling stock and tried to rip steel cabling from a steam crane....
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In the first week of May, one passenger train ran into another at Caxas, a station near Lisbon in Portugal. Fortunately it was travelling slowly, but 20 people sustained injury, according to Lisbon...
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