SAFETY GATES FAIL

On 18 February, the automatic gates at a light rail crossing in Austin, Texas, failed during a safety demonstration. The fail-safe system, designed to keep a gate open and allow trapped vehicles to...

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COLLISION NEAR VIENNA

Eleven people were injured when two trains collided north of Vienna during the last week of March. A local passenger train from Tulln to the city ran into a freight near Klosterneuburg in the...

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DOCKLANDS DERAILMENT

Britain's rail accidents investigation board (RAIB) is looking into the derailment of a train at West India Quay on London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) on 10 March 2009. Train 706 from Bank to...

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UK RAIL FOLLOWED RAIB RECOMMENDATIONS

The UK rail industry has acted on 97% of the recommendations made by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) says chief inspector Carolyn Griffiths. "Whilst the RAIB is a very new organisation...

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BRIT POLICE AT PENN STATION

According to the New York Daily News, 'members of the British Transport Police (BTP), sporting distinctive 19th century helmets, strolled through Penn Station [in Manhattan] with teams of Amtrak...

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FOOTBALL FANS DIE ON THE TRACK

Two football fans died and 11 were hurt when they were hit by an empty passenger train travelling at about 60km/h near Aubervilliers, north of Paris. They had taken a short cut to reach their bus stop...

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EUROSTAR RESUMES FULL SERVICE

The Eurostar company has resumed full passenger service through the Channel Tunnel for the first time since the catastrophe on 11 September 2008, when fire was detected just before 15:00 on a...

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YOUTHS BURN ATHENS TRAIN

A group of '15 to 20' youths wearing hoods and carnival clothes boarded a train at the terminal station of Kifisia north of Athens on Ilektriki Sidirodromi Athinon-Pireos AE (SAP) ' the Athens-Piraeus...

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SPRINKLERS FOLLOW EUROTUNNEL FIRE

Millions of cross-Channel passengers and trucks have suffered delays and cancellations since a serious fire damaged one of the two 50km tunnels under the sea during September 2008. A road truck...

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UK LEVEL CROSSING STATS

Cases of motorists taking dangerous and illegal risks at level crossings are at a five-year high in Britain, the BBC reports. . Infrastructure authority Network Rail says there were 400 incidents at...

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