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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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