A KTX train was brought to an abrupt halt inside a tunnel near Busan on 17 July, reviving concerns over the South Korean high-speed rail system. About 400 passengers were stranded for an hour,...
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From RailNews online newsletter:
'Adding a new meaning to 'cattle class' in the UK, cows on the track accounted for 15 train cancellations on a West Midlands' section of the West Coast line between...
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On 24 June, two truck drivers and the driver of an Amtrak passenger train watched helplessly as a semi-trailer rig skidded 'the length of a football field' before smashing through the lowered gates...
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On 26 June, two locomotives and a boxcar left the rails in the CSX rail yard at Calera. Alabama. They were heading a train of 65 wagons carrying 'a cargo of maintenance rocks', according to press...
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On 26 June, two locomotives and a boxcar left the rails in the CSX rail yard at Calera. Alabama. They were heading a train of 65 wagons carrying 'a cargo of maintenance rocks', according to press...
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Amtrak officials are eyeing an electrical substation in Richmond, Virginia as the possible source of a voltage problem that halted trains on 23 June between New York and Philadelphia. These included...
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From ABC News (Australia) 24 June, courtesy Bruno Martin:
'A train operator has been stood down from driving duties after he took off in the wrong direction from Sydney's Central Station last...
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Three of four trains stranded on 16 June as rain-triggered landslides buried parts of a railway in south-west China reached their destinations on Saturday 18 June, according to local railway...
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A train that made an emergency stop in a tunnel in Iwate Prefecture moments after the Great East Japan Earthquake remains stranded there more than three months later, while the operator of the line...
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On 10 June, the Kolkata metro was under water for nearly three hours as persistent rain flooded the city and penetrated into the tunnel. On previous occasions when trams, buses and taxis were put out...
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