STEALING RAIL SPIKES NOT LUCRATIVE

In the first week of March, sheriff's deputies in Henderson County, Illinois, arrested Cruz Mario Carnacion, 37, and Jose Luis Trejo-Yanez, after receiving a 911 call reporting suspicious activity...

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EUROSTAR BREAKS DOWN

Following the breakdown of a Eurostar train in south-east England, the several hundred passengers aboard had to wait more than an hour before a replacement train arrived to take them to St Pancras...

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SNOW DISPRUPTS SWEDISH TRAINS

Harsh weather has caused widespread rail disruption across Sweden. Urban metro services were badly affected in temperatures as low as -25 degrees Celsius, and all train operations between Stockholm...

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CROSSING COLLISION KILLS SEVEN

Three high school girls aged 16 and 17 and four adults died on 3 March when the Toyota Venture panel van in which they were travelling to a school in Welgeval, outside Rustenburg, collided with a...

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WAGONS SET ON FIRE

According to BuaNews, the government's news publication, a Transnet Freight Rail goods train was set alight at Kleigrond near Vereeniging on 1 March, apparently by local people protesting about...

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STORM HALTS EIGHT AMTRAK TRAINS

On 18 February, eight of Amtrak's 26 weekday trains between the Washington DC region and New York city were cancelled following track damage in a severe storm the previous day.  CSX Transportation...

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE TRAIN KIND

On 23 February, according to the Orange County Register, a 57-year-old Los Angeles man fell onto the track at Irvine station and was hit by a Metrolink suburban passenger train. Paramedics treated...

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BRUSSELS CRASH AFTERMATH

The 15 February head-on collision near Brussels was the worst rail accident in Belgium since 1954. Altogether 18 people were confirmed dead, 55 badly hurt and 89 with minor injuries. Light snow was...

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FATAL DRIVE OFF CAPE TOWN BRIDGE ONTO RAILWAY

On 7 February, two men in a bakkie travelling on the N1 in the direction of Cape Town are thought to have swerved to avoid hitting a vagrant. The vehicle hurtled through a large gap in a bridge...

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BUSINESS CLASS TRAINS ATTACKED

Windows were smashed when the Pretoria-Johannesburg "Tshwane Business Express" was stoned at Kempton Park, apparently because it was given priority over ordinary Metrorail commuter trains following a...

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