Bulgarian freight derails

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...

Read More

Bridge parapet hit by high-speed train

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...

Read More

UK main-line reopens after floods

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...

Read More

Fire closes Marylebone station

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...

Read More

UK container accidents

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...

Read More

UK container accidents

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...

Read More

UK flooding disrupts trains

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...

Read More

SNCF investigates TGV derailment

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...

Read More

French TGV derails; 14 die

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...

Read More

UK derailment halts services

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...

Read More
Page 2 of 29 pages - < First < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > Last >