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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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