BOMB SCARE HALTS BOSTON TRAINS

At about 07:35 on 8 October, transit police were called to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Administration (MBTA) Riverside station in Boston to investigate a suspicious device. Spokeswoman Lydia Rivera...

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AMTRAK TRAIN RUNS INTO ANOTHER

On 12 October at about 22:00, an Amtrak passenger express ran head-on into a stationary train loading people in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Minor injuries to 17 individuals were...

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LIFTING RAIL BRIDGE STUCK

A bridge that became stuck open along the Connecticut shoreline disrupted train service on the Metro-North Railroad as well as Amtrak, early in October. According to the New York Metropolitan...

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PIGEON SHUTS DOWN BRISBANE TRAINS

On 23 September, every afternoon peak commuter train in Brisbane was delayed by power problems after a pigeon collided with an overhead traction wire. "It sounded like a car crash and when we looked...

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FATAL COLLISION IN VENEZUELA

One person died and about 30 were injured in a collision between two commuter trains in a tunnel near Charallave, outside the Venezuelan capital Caracas. According to witnesses, one train suddenly...

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TRACTOR DERAILS UK TRAIN

At 10:13 on Sunday 25 September 2011, train 1T60, the 10:10 service from King's Lynn to Ely, struck a tractor on the single line at Hatson's 'user worked crossing', approximately two miles from King's...

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BARCOMBE TUNNEL

At 05:24 on 23 September 2011, the crew of a maintenance train on its way to Tonbridge after overnight work near Hove, reported to the signaller at Three Bridges that there appeared to be a problem...

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LIRR IN TROUBLE

This was supposed to be the year that the troubles on New York's Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) came to a halt. A $56 million state-of-the-art computerised signal system was installed last autumn at the...

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TRAIN RINS INTO ICEBERG IN TUNNEL

About an hour after midnight on 28 December 2010, a passenger train travelling from Manchester to Leeds at 92km/h struck a huge mound of ice on the track inside Summit tunnel. All wheels of the front...

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THREE DIE IN SRI LANKA COLLISION

The driver and his assistant died on 18 September when their passenger train ran into and badly damaged the observation car at the rear of another train near the station at Alawwa, Sri Lanka, about...

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