Nobody was injured when a passenger train derailed during the morning peak-hour at a crossing outside Sala station, approximately 100km north-west of Stockholm. The crossing barrier was dislodged,...
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The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report on an incident involving electrical arcing and fire under a train on 30 January 2015. The 19 passengers escaped by jumping down...
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The following report by the UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is reproduced here because of its instructive nature, eg it illustrates the dangers associated with overriding safety measures....
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Norfolk Southern 44-car Intermodal train 204-29 derailed nine wagons on the single main-line track at Marshall, Virginia (approximately 80km west of Washington, DC) on 30 September, when it collided...
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The coroner at an inquest in London returned a verdict of double suicide in the case of two women who died at Ealing Broadway station in June. According to evidence, the 36-year-old mother and her...
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Shortly after noon on 17 September 2015, the 10:55 from Cambridge collided with the buffer stops at King's Cross station, London, platform 11. The train was formed of a four-car class 317 electric...
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On 12 September, two British women tourists died when three vehicles in a four-coach train derailed on the narrow gauge Kalka-Shimla line in India. A third person is believed to have died in hospital...
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On 8 September, a morning peak-hour commuter train caught fire at Warwick Parkway station. There were 150 passengers on board the 07:46 Leamington to Worcester train which was evacuated when flames...
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Late on the afternoon of 22 August, a French passenger rose to use the toilet in a high-speed Thalys train en route from Amsterdam to Paris. At the same time a man emerged from the toilet wielding an...
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At about 21:45 on 1 November 2014, a pair of rail carrying trolleys, known as “Ironmen”, carrying a 16 metre length of rail, ran out of control for approximately 8.7km along the Garnant branch line in...
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