CONTAINER PARTS ON UK TRACK

The UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has looked into the dislodging of container panels, one of which collided with a track maintenance machine near Althorpe Park, Northamptonshire on 18...

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DERAILMENT NEAR PENN STATION, NY

On 9 August, two coaches of 10-car Trenton-bound New Jersey Transit commuter train 3823 derailed in the tunnel near Penn station, New York. No one was injured. The 300 passengers on board were...

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ISANDO STATION ORDEAL

According to the Johannesburg Times, an employee in the metals industry was beaten, stripped, called igundwane (rat), stripped naked and savagely bludgeoned with a sjambok, sticks and rocks by a group...

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OFS TRACK THIEVES CAUGHT

OFS police have arrested 18 men, 'mostly foreigners', who were caught with sections of rail, cutting torches and other equipment in their possession. The rail was removed near Villiers during June,...

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EGYPTIAN CROSSING COLLISION KILLS SIX

In the last week of July, six people were killed and 12 injured in a collision between an express train and a lorry loaded with bricks in the town of el-Fashn in Beni Sueif Governorate, about 120km...

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FATAL COLLISION IN WEST BENGAL

At least three people were killed and 200 injured when the locomotive and several coaches of the Guwahati to Bangalore express derailed and were hit by another train in the Malda district of West...

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IOWA: 22 OFF

On 31 July, 22 vehicles in a 136-wagon coal train headed from Wyoming to Illinois derailed at Denison, Iowa. Both lines of the double track were blocked by spilled coal and about 240 metres of track...

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KICKOUT PRECAUTIONS IN TEXAS

July in Texas was extremely hot, so much so that during the last week of the month, trains were warned to go slow. Between Fort Worth and Dallas, the normal limit of 126km/h was cut to 100. It was so...

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RADIO WARNING FOR LEVEL CROSSINGS

Radio technology could help prevent crashes at level crossings according to Australia's Rail, Tram and Bus union. The union has asked Queensland's state government to consider introducing the Pixie...

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SA TRAINS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW

On 26 July, heavy snowfalls resulted in the cancellation of trains between Johannesburg and Durban, also East London. According to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa): 'All trains from...

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