Bulgarski Durzhavni Zheleznitzi (BDZ – Bulgaria’s state railway) says four tankcars and five freight wagons carrying cement derailed at Dupnitsa station on 29 January, but nobody was injured. The...
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UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report:
At around 17:31 on 22 February 2015, a high speed passenger train (HST), the 16:34 First Great Western service from London Paddington to...
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Two days after the UK West Coast main-line north of Carlisle was submerged under more than 2 metres of water on 5 December, engineers managed to reopen it to traffic. Mud and other debris had to be...
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A coach air conditioning unit is believed to have been the cause of a fire on a train entering Marylebone station in Central London. Train operator Chiltern Railways suspended services and some 700...
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The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into two incidents involving containers detaching from freight trains. On 7 March 2015, an empty 30ft container became detached...
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The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into two incidents involving containers detaching from freight trains. On 7 March 2015, an empty 30ft container became detached...
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On 8 December, Network Rail in the UK announced: “Flooding and landslips caused by heavy rain from Storm Desmond are affecting services in northern England and Scotland. Trains between England and...
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Investigators from Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF - the French national railway) are endeavouring to discover the circumstances in which children were allowed on board a TGV...
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A TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) derailed in the Bas-Rhin area of Alsace on 14 November, the trailing power car landing up in the adjacent Marne-Rhine canal. In the accident, 11 people died and 42 were...
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The derailment of a freight train at Wymondham on 20 October disrupted passenger services provided by Abellio Greater Anglia between Norwich, Cambridge and Peterborough Trains were terminated at...
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