According to an Indian Express report, at least 27 passengers were injured, three seriously, when eight coaches of the Ferozepur-Mumbai Punjab Mail derailed between Sampla-Kharawar station near Rohtak...
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On 10 May, a Transnet Freight Rail train ran into a four-seater Cessna plane that crash-landed near Michaelhouse school at Balgowan in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands while attempting an emergency landing...
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Official statement by Railway Safety Regulator (RSR):
This incident took place at the subway between platforms 7 and 8 at around 07:20 on 10 May.
The preliminary RSR information is that:
' A...
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According to an 11 May account in the newspaper Beeld, the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has released its findings into the 21 April 2010 runaway from Centurion and subsequent derailment on the...
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In the first week of May, one passenger train ran into another at Caxas, a station near Lisbon in Portugal. Fortunately it was travelling slowly, but 20 people sustained injury, according to Lisbon...
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Major disruption' to train services at Amsterdam followed the collision of two passenger trains late in April, in which one person died and 'at least' 136 were reported hurt, 56 seriously. The...
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On 24 April 2012, three people died when a bomb blast ripped through the business express lounge at Lahore station in Punjab province, in the east of Pakistan. About 20 were injured. Railways minister...
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Following the widespread disruption to the 200km Mumbai suburban network caused by a fire in the signal box at Kurla station on 18 April, when 'the entire automatic signalling system collapsed',...
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When a train on the Chicago elevated derailed on 29 April, 40 passengers had to climb off and walk to the nearest station. The train was chartered by the Illinois Railway Museum to raise funds....
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The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) reports:
'At about 07:38 on 22 March 2012, a motorist used the telephone at Lindridge Farm user-worked level crossing, near Bagworth in...
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