AMTRAK STALLED IN SNOW

An Amtrak train scheduled to arrive in Denver, Colorado, at 07:00 on 7 January finally arrived the following morning - a day late. At Sutton, between Lincoln and Hastings in Nebraska, it was stopped...

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CROATIAN DERAILMENT

On 10 January, a nine-wagon freight train transporting artificial fertiliser derailed on the Knin-Sibenik line, near Perkovic station. No one was injured but traffic between Zagreb and Split was...

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SOUTH CAROLINA DERAILMENT

On 10 January, 10 out of 18 wagons in a CSX Transportation Charleston-Augusta freight train derailed near Almeda in Hampton County, South Carolina. The two locomotives were unaffected. The wagons were...

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CHANNEL TUNNEL STALLED BY COLD

According to a Bloomberg report quoting Eurostar Group Ltd, engineering work designed to make locomotives snowproof won't enable it to drop speed restrictions and a limit of one train at a time...

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TURKEY: DRIVER KILLED

A passenger train that crashed into another at a station in Bilecik, some 400km south of Istanbul, resulted in the death of one driver. Seven people were hurt. Both trains were travelling from...

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FATAL KENYAN DERAILMENT

Fatalities in the 21 December derailment of a Uganda-bound passenger train in the Shimoni area of Kiberia (the large Nairobi informal settlement) were expected to total as many as seven. Workers...

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KEY TANZANIAN BRIDGE COLLAPSES

In floods which broke a prolonged drought in Tanzania, a key bridge on the central railway line linking Dar-es-Salaam to the capital Dodoma was washed away in the first week of January. According to...

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NAMIBIAN DERAILMENT

According to press reports, Train 9909 from Walvis Bay on 1 January derailed between Brakwater and Windhoek as a result of a broken rail. Two locomotives, three coaches and four fuel tank wagons...

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THREE CRASHES IN INDIA: 10 DEAD

Five passenger trains collided in three separate accidents in dense fog in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring more than 40, the Times of India reports....

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RSR UNHAPPY WITH RADIO CONTROL

"The South African Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has determined that a significant shortcoming exists in the operating procedures for Radio Train Order [RTO] controlled sections," spokesman Carvel...

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