TRAIN PASSENGER HURT IN SCOTS FLOOD

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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ODESSA STATION EXPLOSION

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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CYCLIST DRAGGED & KILLED UNDER TRAIN

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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ONE BOGIE OFF TRACK: 17 BUSES HELP OUT

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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EARLY SNOWSTORMS DISRUPT UK TRAINS

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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PASSING TRAINS SANDWICH TRUCK AT CROSSING

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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UK FREIGHT DERAILMENT

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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TROUBLES IN ROME

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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DERAILED RUSSIAN TRAIN IN WATER

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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LOCO DEMOLISHES CROSSING GATE

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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