CSX ACCIENTS - NO PATTERN

Several derailments have occurred on Dahlgren Junction industrial track in Stafford County, Virginia but industry and federal rail officials can discern no 'pattern'. In the latest instance, three...

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BNSF SPILLS 4,000T OF COAL

On 4 August, extensive delays were caused to rail traffic at Melrose, Iowa following the derailment of 29 wagons in a 119-wagon coal train. According to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway's...

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RANDFONTEIN SERVICE RESUMES

Acting Metrorail regional manager (Gauteng) Douglas Chauke, announcing the resumption of commuter service between Johannesburg and Randfontein, said the damage caused to a train on 4 June amounted to...

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TRAIN/BUS COLLISION ' 3 DEAD, 60 HURT

Two pupils and a teacher were killed when a school bus collided with a train near Rolle halt in Thulamahashe, Mpumalanga early on 31 July. The bus carrying 62 children and three teachers was...

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ANTI-COLLISION DEVICES

The Indian Railway Board is to instal anti-collision devices (ACD) in an effort to avert train collisions. The decision follows the recent collision between the Uttarbanga and Vanachal expresses which...

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FATAL SWISS GLACIER EXPRESS DERAILMENT

One 64-year-old person was killed and about 40 were hurt, 'at least' 12 seriously, when the Zermatt-Chur Glacier Express derailed in the Swiss Alps. Many of the 200 passengers, including the fatality,...

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BROKEN WIRE CHAOS IN MELBOURNE

The Australian city of Melbourne was thrown into chaos on 27 July when an overhead wire broke in the morning peak, causing a total rail traction failure which paralysed services on all lines for more...

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COSTLY NEW AUSTRALIAN LINE 'UNSAFE'

Sections of the Melbourne-Albury line, recently upgraded at a cost of A$500 million, have been declared unsafe because 'hundreds of large, mud-filled potholes' have formed beneath the newly installed...

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BNSF FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILS 19 WAGONS

At about 06:40 on 26 July, two locomotives and 19 wagons of a train conveying 'mixed freight' derailed on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) in New Mexico, about 14km south of San...

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THREE LOCOS DESTROYED IN 107-WAGON DERAILMENT

On 22 July, a serious derailment on the 861km Sishen-Saldanha heavy-haul iron ore line caused traffic disruption expected to last at least five days. At kilometre 203 between Loop 4 (Knersvlak, near...

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