BRAHMAPUTRA MAIL IN FATAL COLLISION

Five people died at Karanpurato station in Jharkhand, India, when the Brahmaputra Mail bound for New Delhi collided with a freight train that reportedly 'rolled backwards'. According to The Times of...

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WEST BENGAL COLLISION

According to an India Today report, one person died and six were hurt when one passenger train ran into another at Fulia station in the Nadia district of West Bengal. Three coaches in the one train...

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NOT TO BLAME FOR JAPANESE CRASH

The driver and 106 passengers died in 2005 in Japan's worst rail accident in 40 years when a commuter train derailed on a bend in the city of Amagasaki (near Kobe) during the morning peak hour and...

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CHINA CRASH FINDINGS CONFIRMED

The official report into the collision between two high-speed trains near China's Wenzhou on 23 July 2011 - in which 40 people died - appeared on the website of China's state administration of work...

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LIGHTNING KNOCKS OUT GAUTENG TRAINS

Following a lightning strike at Kaalfontein, north of Kempton Park in Gauteng, provincial manager Thembela Khulu of the Passenger Rail Association of SA (Prasa) said on 11 January it would take 'at...

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DAVEYTON TRAINS KNOCKED OUT

There were no trains to or from Daveyton, Benoni's densely populated dormitory zone, on the morning of 11 January. The explanation was the usual one ' someone had stolen the overhead wires. Metrorail...

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CAPE TOWN RAIL STRIKE COST R10M

Fourteen striking rail security guards appeared in court on 13 December to face charges of intimidation and kidnapping. Police expected to link them to other incidents that occurred during two weeks...

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PEDESTRIAN DIES AT PENZANCE CROSSING

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), UK Department for Transport, is investigating an incident on 3 October 2011, when a pedestrian was struck and killed on Mexico footpath crossing, near...

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SNOW STOPS TRAINS IN AUSTRIA

The main east-west railway route in western Austria was shut down on 7 January following heavy snow in the popular Alpine skiing region. Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB ' Austria's state railway)...

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POCATELLO DERAILMENT

Shortly before midnight on 30 December, three Union Pacific (UP) container flat wagons derailed in Pocatello, Idaho. According to UP director of corporate and media relations Aaron Hunt, nobody was...

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