AUSTRALIAN COAL DERAILMENT

At about 01:40 0n 2 February, a Pacific National train derailed between Wycarbah and Warren, about 40km from Rockhampton in the Blackwater coal system. The incident was expected to delay trains in...

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TIED TO LINE: LOSES LEG

Carolyn Frost, editor of The Bolander (Western Cape) was outraged. Maybe you will be too: 'The inhumane dumping of a pregnant dog, found tied to railroad tracks near Wellington last Friday, has...

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AMTRAK STUCK IN SNOW

At about 02:40 on Friday 5 February, Amtrak's Capitol Limited - bound for Chicago from Washington with 115 passengers - made an unscheduled stop outside Connellsville, Pennsylvania, a former...

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WISCONSIN: 24 OUT OF 113 DERAIL

On 8 February, a five-locomotive, 113-wagon Union Pacific freight train en route from Chicago to Butler, north-west of Milwaukee, derailed 24 vehicles in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. No injuries were...

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MASSIVE STORM DISRUPTION IN N-E USA

In the face of continued severe winter weather in the Mid-Atlantic and north-east, Amtrak issued a number of service adjustments for Wednesday, February 10: 'Despite adverse weather conditions, the...

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50+ HURT AT ZAGREB

Four days before Christmas, a Croatian passenger train from Sisak hit a concrete buffer and derailed at Zagreb Central station, injuring more than 50 people. A seven-member Croatian Railways...

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EIGHT DIE IN IRANIAN DERAILMENT

On 23 January, eight passengers died and 30 were injured when a five-coach Tehran-Mashhad turbo-train derailed at Azadwar station near the city of Sabzevar in Iran's north eastern province of...

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CHATSWORTH CRASH LOCOS MOVED

On 12 September 2008, 25 people lost their lives and more than 130 were injured (four critically) when three-coach, diesel-hauled, commuter train no 111, outbound about 45km north of Los Angeles on...

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AMTRAK WIRE PROBLEMS

On 2 February, a pantograph on a New Jersey Transit train fouled the overhead catenary in the south Manhattan tunnel. With all traffic confined to the single remaining operable track in the north...

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RAIL TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MAY BE PROSECUTED

Police have turned over to prosecutors their case against three rail traffic controllers following the 2005 derailment of an East Japan Railway company express train, the Tokyo Times reports. Blamed...

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