The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) reports:
'At about 09:55 on 12 April 2012, a passenger attempted to board a train on platform 2 at Jarrow station on the Tyne and Wear Metro...
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On 29 April, a woman and her daughter apparently jumped from a moving Metrorail commuter train at Compensation station near Ballito on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast. The elder woman was killed while...
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In 21 April, a bus collided with a National Railways of Zimbabwe goods train near Kadoma, killing one person and injuring 28, some seriously. According to witnesses quoted by the Bulawayo Chronicle,...
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An intercity express collided head-on with a local passenger train on 21 April near Sloterdijk, to the west of Amsterdam. Initial reports spoke of 'at least' 125 people injured, 13 seriously, though...
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On 13 April, three German track workers lost their lives and thirteen people were injured, some seriously, when a double-deck Deutsche Bahn local train ran into a maintenance vehicle in the eastern...
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An Acela high-speed express between Boston and New York was halted on 29 March after an Amtrak passenger train derailed in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The 285 passengers on board the Acela were...
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Fire gutted the main signal cabin at Mumbai's key Kurla station shortly after midnight on Wednesday 18 April, causing massive disruption. The entire automatic signalling system failed, necessitating...
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According to a report by the Asian Development Bank, TSO-AS & Nawarath, a French-Thai joint venture, was found to have 'grossly violated health and safety requirements at workers' camps along both the...
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Polish prosecutors reportedly plan to charge a railway signalman for causing a head-on collision between two trains on 3 March when both were routed onto the same track. He faces up to eight years'...
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Canada's Federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has released a report into a train crash in February 2010 that injured seven people in St-Charles-de-Bellechasse when a passenger train ran into a...
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