One 64-year-old person was killed and about 40 were hurt, 'at least' 12 seriously, when the Zermatt-Chur Glacier Express derailed in the Swiss Alps. Many of the 200 passengers, including the fatality,...
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On 10 July, a heat wave was blamed for air-conditioning failure in three high-tech Deutsche Bahn (DB) ICE trains, westbound from Berlin in Germany. Passengers were described as being 'near collapse'...
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Damage to rolling stock, track and cargo estimated at $US970,000 resulted when five wagons in a freight train from Gummern, Austria to Kostrzyn, Poland jumped the track near Augsburg on the main line...
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A high-speed train passing through Castelldefels Playa station near Barcelona on 24 June ran into a group of young people crossing the tracks, according to a BBC report. 'At least' 12 were killed and...
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An important rail bridge collapsed during heavy weather in Norfolk, Nebraska, cutting access to industrial plants in the town. During a tour by industry leaders and officials to inspect the damage,...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into the derailment of two out of five runaway wagons in a siding at Ashburys, Manchester at about 00:25 on 4 May 2010. Five wagons,...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into a derailment at about 20:55 on Sunday 6 June 2010, involving the 18:20 from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban. The train comprised a...
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On 6 June, a multiple-unit diesel passenger train from Glasgow to Oban derailed after dark near the Falls of Cruachan. The driver said he applied emergency brakes on seeing "two huge rocks on the...
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A collision avoidance technique based on short-distance train-to-train transmission is under test at the Wegberg-Wildenrath test centre near Düsseldorf in Gernamy.
The trials are being led by...
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Train runaways don't only happen at Centurion. On 24 March, three dock workers were killed when 16 wagons broke loose at a freight terminal in Oslo, Norway and careened downhill for 5km. Derailing,...
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