Buses were brought in to replace train services between Dumfries and Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland, on 21 December, when tracks were submerged by floodwater. The 22:12 Glasgow Central to...
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On 24 December a freight train passing through the Zastava-1 station in Odessa, Ukraine, apparently triggered an explosion which damaged rails and sleepers, though there was no derailment. A...
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Sunday 14 December ended unhappily for a 37-year-old cyclist in Camden, Delaware, who stopped at a crossing while a lengthy Norfolk Southern freight train of 128 wagons went slowly through. The man on...
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Only one bogie derailed on a UK passenger train but it happened on the busy four-track main-line between London and Milton Keynes. Seventeen buses were laid on to transport stranded passengers. The...
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Heavy snowfalls and strong winds reportedly disrupted UK rail traffic late in the first week of December. Temperatures fell to below freezing. A Daily Mail photo showed a diesel-hauled passenger train...
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On 24 November, at a snow-covered crossing between the Kondratovka and Petropavlovsk stations on Kazakhstan's South Urals Railway, trains passing in opposite directions sandwiched a large truck which...
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A coal train operated by the DB Schenker company came off the track at West Sleekburn, Northumberland, on 17 November, leaving wagons strewn across multiple tracks. The consist was heading from Blyth...
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Early in November, the first train on Rome's new $US3 billion driverless metro line C failed four stations short of its destination. The dignitaries were forced to alight and walk to another set which...
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The official Russian news agency Tass reported the derailment of a two-coach passenger train on 3 November, on the shore in the Sakhalin region between the port towns Kholmsk and Chekhov. A railway...
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It wasn't the most serious accident of the week but it made headlines in the village of Lingwood in Norfolk, where the local paper published graphic photos and many excited comments from locals....
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