[caption id="attachment_14887" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Paramedics and rescue workers attend to injured commuters lying on the tracks after a train crashed into the back of another...
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[caption id="attachment_14896" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="DISASTER: More than 800 people were injured in the Soweto train accident last week. Picture: Matthews Baloyi"][/caption]On 23...
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The Long Island Railroad (LIRR), the America's largest commuter rail system, runs 447 trains in and out of New York city's Penn Station on a typical weekday. All enter Manhattan through four tunnels...
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Kathy Hadley, mother of an Eastern Kentucky University student killed on 10 August 2010 when her vehicle collided with a train has filed a civil action lawsuit against CSX Transportation and one of...
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On 24 May, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) loco foreman Paul Young, 28, Young, married with two young children, was admitted to the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas,...
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It wasn't the subway this time, but a surface line near Khuma, in South Africa's North-west province. According to a Sapa report, Mama Sekhamane, 26, was 'lying across the tracks' when she was hit by...
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On Sunday 8 May, an Amtrak train derailed in the tunnel under the East River linking Manhattan to Queens. Heavy delays and cancellations were caused to Long Island Railroad (LIRR) commuter services...
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On 16 May, seven wagons derailed during shunting operations in a yard at Pasco, Washington state. A valve on a tankcar was damaged, causing the vehicle to leak more than 4,000 litres of hydrochloric...
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Siemens Energy has filed a lawsuit against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), seeking compensation for a cargo of windmill blades damaged in transit. In August 2010, Siemens manufactured...
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A crash at an Edmonton rail crossing in 2010 that killed a man and his two young children is not likely to have been caused by equipment failure. This is the conclusion in a draft report going to...
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