A 24-year-old British lawyer who apparently drank too much at a party in London's Kensington on 12 April reportedly left his cousin's flat on foot in search of a cellphone signal. He was seen very...
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A freak hurricane that lashed southern England on 22 October, killing three people (a tree fell on one woman in central London's Knightsbridge), turned rail services upside down. Winds of 170km/h...
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The France-Spain high-speed line was closed between Figueres and Barcelona on 4 October because of serious flooding in the 7km tunnel below Girona. Emergency services working with the military pumped...
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On 1 October, suburban train services in south London were disrupted following two unusual explosions on the track at the south end of East Croydon station. It appeared that these were due to a...
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Two coaches of a train on the Longleat Adventure Park miniature railway near Warminster in Wiltshire derailed and one overturned on 20 August. A woman trapped under the overturned vehicle was rescued...
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Those incredible Swiss railways, clawing their way up and down and through mountains, seem awfully prone to accidents, yet almost never have one. When they do, as on 13 August, they do it in style. A...
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Sensational CCTV photos published on 11 August showed an infant in a pushchair which landed on a London underground track at Goodge Street station. Apparently a man parked the chair on the platform at...
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Police in York are looking for a truck driver who came close to a nasty encounter with a train. Witnesses reported a high goods vehicle trying to enter the Wigginton Road level crossing as the gates...
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On 2 Aug 2014, near Mannheim in Germany, 35 people were reported hurt - four seriously - when five coaches of a Saarbrucken-bound passenger train from Graz in Austria derailed after it collided with a...
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Three coaches 'near the front' of a Moscow subway train derailed and jack-knifed on 15 July in a tunnel about 200 metres from the Slavic Boulevard metro stop. According to the RIA Novosti news agency,...
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