On 24 May, very heavy rains flooded parts of Norfolk in the UK, reportedly 'wreaking havoc on the rail network.' The situation was aggravated by it being a long weekend with more than usual traffic on...
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On 20 May, 16 flatcars in a container train owned by the Ukrainian State Centre of Transport Service (SCTS), reportedly carrying Renault spares from Romania, derailed between the stations of Nara and...
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At some point, around about 1965, the standard measurements used in building station platforms in France were slightly changed. The distance from the track to the platform edge was reduced by a few...
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On 23 April, a lorry that collided with a railway bridge in Hockley near London resulted in the line being closed for some time between Hockley and Rochford. This caused serious delays to the Greater...
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On 19 April, 13 coaches out of 16 in a 19-vehicle Almaty-Atyrau passenger train came off the track between Zhanterek and Enbay in Kazakhstan. Reportedly there were 586 passengers aboard and a crew of...
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Northeast Corridor service was temporarily suspended between New York and Trenton on 25 March after a man on the platform at New Brunswick station was struck and killed by a passing train. The...
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On 20 March, an Adana-Mersin train in Turkey ran into a minibus on a level crossing near the destination port city on the Mediterranean. No one on board the train was hurt but ten women in the minibus...
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An exceptional storm during February swept 100 metres of the seawall at Dawlish in south Devon out to sea, carrying with it the double-track main railway to Cornwall. The British Army drafted in 1,000...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into the circumstances of an incident at Holborn station on the London Underground's Piccadilly Line. A woman moving towards a train she...
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On 14 February, all train services west of Plymouth had to be cancelled following a massive storm with winds up to 180km/h, which brought down huge trees. The First Great Western passenger rail...
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