On 17 July, a French regional TER train carrying 80 passengers ran into the rear of a Tarbes- Bordeaux- Paris Montparnasse high-speed TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) with 175 people on board near the...
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The driver of a train travelling from Sofia to Varna died when the locomotive and four coaches derailed at Kaloyanovets near the central Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora on 12 July. Fifteen people were...
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In a bizarre incident on 29 June, third rail power had to be switched off at Waterloo, an important London terminus, when a man 'clad all in white with a bandana on his head' appeared on the track at...
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A week before the new Ankara-Istanbul high-speed passenger service was due to start, a test train partially derailed when it collided with a maintenance vehicle near Gebze. Torkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet...
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On 4 July, a flatbed rig carrying a dumper stalled on a crossing at Talhausen, south of Stuttgart in Germany. An approaching train was unable to stop short of the crossing and 31 passengers on board...
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Nine Russian tankcars carrying crude oil derailed on 22 June near the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk. One wagon overturned. Nobody was injured and no spill was reported....
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Completion of Turkey's new 533km high-speed line linking Istanbul with Ankara, now due to open during June, has been delayed by several incidents and sabotage attempts including the theft of cables...
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Catastrophic floods over much of the Balkan states late in May reportedly devastated railways in Bosnia. Srpske Republic Railways (ZRS) CEO Dragan Savanovic made an urgent appeal for help from the...
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On Sunday 25 May, a stolen car was abandoned on the railway near Berlin, Connecticut, where it was hit by an Amtrak passenger train travelling at about 60km/h. Nobody was injured and no rolling stock...
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The British Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) has reported on an accident in Northern Ireland a year ago ' on 31 May 2013 - where a motorist had a narrow escape when a weed-killer train did...
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