LA ACCIDENT FINDINGS

The driver of a passenger train probably ran a red light and was therefore to blame for a 2008 accident in Rialto north of Los Angeles when the side of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight consist...

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SOWETO CRASH HURTS 250, 644, 857'.

At about 17:50 on 19 May, a Metrorail commuter train from Johannesburg ran into the rear of Soweto Business Express #2 between the Mzimhlophe and Phomolong stations. Evidently there was no derailment,...

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MOTORIST CARGED AFTER CROSSING ACCIDENT

Sheriff's deputies were called out in Genessee County, New York state, on 7 April following reports of a motorist driving on a tireless rim. They found and followed fresh scrape marks on the road in...

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UK TREE FELLS HIGH-SPEED TRAIN

It was something that could happen in the best of families but there was quite a bit to be learned from this one, the subject of a recently released report by the UK Rail Accidents Investigation...

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TRAM/OVERHEAD COLLISION

On 20 April 2011, a tram travelling towards Birmingham at about 70km/h struck a cantilever tube (a section of steel tubing) that had become partially detached from a post supporting overhead line...

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CULVERT COLLAPSE INVESTIGATION

The UK Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into the partial failure of a brick arch culvert carrying a stream under a four-track railway and three adjacent sidings, south of...

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FAILURE OF CROSSING BARRIER

The UK Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into a 23 March 2011 occurrence at the Lydney station level crossing, Gloucestershire, on the line between Severn Tunnel Junction and...

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TWO DEAD IN BNSF REAR-ENDER

A driver and a conductor lost their lives in a 17 April collision involving two eastbound BNSF trains at McPherson, about 8km west of Red Oak in south-west Iowa. The second consist, a 130-wagon coal...

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FORCED STOP FOR TRAIN WITH SICK PASSENGERS

On 26 April, a Canadian Via Rail passenger train bound for Vancouver was forced to make an extended stop in Edmonton after 11 passengers became ill. Medical help was called in when the train, which...

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CN's L-O-O-O-NG LOCO

Seen on Newstalk650.com: 'A passing train has become a serious pain to morning traffic in the Canadian city of Regina. In recent weeks, a locomotive between 6,000 and 8,000 feet long has been coming...

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