A simple device known as a 'health card', no bigger than a box of CDs, which bolts on to a wagon and uses algorithms to give indications of wagon and track conditions, has been developed within the...
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The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) stands accused of failing to "exercise reasonable care in the operation of its trains so as to avoid injuring or killing members of the public,"...
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The 12 May derailing of a Canadian Pacific (CP) freight train near Smiths Falls in Ontario caused extensive track damage, resulting in Via Rail passenger traffic being diverted to buses. Travellers...
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On 12 May, both locomotives of a 63-wagon train conveying general freight derailed about 8km south of Thermopolis at the north end of the Wind River Canyon in Wyoming. The lead unit, which ran into a...
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A pilot from Ohio thought he was having engine trouble when he put his light plane down at the Fairview Heights MetroLink station in St Louis on 2 May. It turns out he had run out of fuel, authorities...
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In addition to the fuel train derailment at Burlington near Duirban on 13 May, three other rail mishaps have been reported. A train carrying fuel to Swaziland came off the track between Empangeni and...
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Train runaways don't only happen at Centurion. On 24 March, three dock workers were killed when 16 wagons broke loose at a freight terminal in Oslo, Norway and careened downhill for 5km. Derailing,...
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At least three people were hurt seriously when a passenger train ran into the back of a freight at Craigieburn in the north of Melbourne. Altogether eight injured passengers were taken to hospital,...
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The locomotives and five wagons of a westbound fuel oil train derailed on the main-line near Burlington about 20km west of Durban at 03:30 on 12 May. No confirmation was forthcoming following reports...
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On 13 May, both the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) and the United Transport and Allied Trade Unions (Utatu) emphatically denied that Transnet employees were responsible for...
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