ARCHIVE - 900 DEAD OR HURT

The worst rail disaster in Jamaica's history, and the second worst rail disaster in the world at the time, occurred on Sunday 1 September 1957, when hundreds of members of the Holy Name Society of St...

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DERAILED AT KANONKOP

On 8 December, a Transnet Freight Rail train derailed at Kanonkop, 97km north of Cape Town on the line to Bitterfontein. Kanonkop is the first station beyond Malmesbury (18km). Both class 35 locos...

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FIRE DEVASTATES VOLUNTEER RAILWAY

Thousands of pounds' worth of precious tools, handed down through generations of rail workers, have been lost in a fire at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway (SCR) in the south-west of England. The...

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CHANNEL TUNNEL FIRE

A report on investigations following a fire on a freight shuttle train in the Channel Tunnel on 11 September 2008 has been released jointly by the UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and...

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MASSIVE UK DISRUPTION AT XMAS

Infrastructure maintenance work will cause massive disruptions to UK train schedules over the Christmas period, when many people travel across the country visiting family and friends. Passengers...

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HEADPHONES CAUSED DEATH ON THE LINE

On 5 December, a 15-year-old girl was struck and killed by a Baltimore to Chicago freight train in South Huntingdon, Pittsburgh, near a CSX Transportation crossing. According to the coroner's finding,...

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BNSF CROSSING ACCIDENT RATE DOWN

Level crossing accidents on America's Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) - the second-largest rail company in America - dropped 28% in the past decade. Collision-related fatalities dropped 42%....

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FATAL BANGLADESH COLLISION

According to the Daily Star (published in Dhaka, Bangladesh), 10 people- possibly more- died when one passenger train ran into another standing at a point north-east of the capital on 8 December....

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SCOTTISH SERVICES BADLY HIT

Train services in Scotland were badly dislocated during the abnormally miserable weather in the first week of December. For several days, no trains at all ran north of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Heavy...

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SOUTHERN UK TRAINS NORMALISE

Passenger services across Surrey returned to normal on 5 December, following the recent severe weather. Both opewrating companies Southern Railways and South West Trains ran their usual Sunday...

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