At least' 18 people died on 15 February and nearly 60 were injured when two peak-hour Belgian electric commuter trains collided head-on at Buizingen, a suburb in south Brussels. It is thought one ran...
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During January, a rodent that chewed through a one-inch high-voltage cable on Britain's west coast main-line delayed 99 trains. Twenty services had to be cancelled. Network Rail has embarked on a...
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Peru's popular tourist railway to Machu Picchu is to be closed for at least two months following torrential rain and mudslides. Late in January, many tourists were stranded after the line was washed...
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Kevin Smith, reporting in the International Railway Journal (IRJ), has explained what went wrong beneath the English Channel on 18 December:
'Extreme weather conditions in northern France caused five...
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Four days before Christmas, a Croatian passenger train from Sisak hit a concrete buffer and derailed at Zagreb Central station, injuring more than 50 people. A seven-member Croatian Railways...
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On 23 January, eight passengers died and 30 were injured when a five-coach Tehran-Mashhad turbo-train derailed at Azadwar station near the city of Sabzevar in Iran's north eastern province of...
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Twelve people were hurt, two seriously, when a two-car Braunschweig- Salzgitter express with about 60 passengers aboard, travelling at 120km/h. ran into a truck stalled on a crossing near Rüningen in...
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According to Associated Press, four runaway coaches from a Kajaani-bound intercity train overran the buffers and crashed into the office wing of the Holiday Inn adjoining Helsinki Central Station in...
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Eurostar is expected to pay out up to 10m in compensation to about 100,000 passengers following the breakdown of five trains in the Channel Tunnel during bad weather in December.
Snow and ice...
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On 10 January, a nine-wagon freight train transporting artificial fertiliser derailed on the Knin-Sibenik line, near Perkovic station. No one was injured but traffic between Zagreb and Split was...
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