On 24 October, according to the German press agency DPA, a passenger train from Giza ('just across the Nile from Cairo') to the oasis of Fayum, about 80km, collided with another route from Cairo to...
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On 21 October, 21 people died when the Goa Express ran into the last coach of the stationary Mewar Express between Mathura and Vrindavan, about 210km from Delhi, where they were both headed. Reports...
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Seven people died and 88 were injured when a passenger express derailed at Hua Hin in Thailand. According to an Associated Press report, quoting the head of a fact-finding panel, 'the driver fell...
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One passenger was killed and at least 40 injured when the engine and six coaches of the Katihar-bound Amarpali Express derailed near Naugachia in Bihar, India. Officials reported that the locomotive...
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At least 12 people were injured, two seriously, when two cranes collapsed at a Delhi metro railway construction site in South Delhi. In a mishap on the same network during July 2009 at Zamrudpur in...
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On 13 October, a Metrorail security guard was shot ' fortunately not fatally - and a train passenger injured at Pienaarspoort station east of Pretoria. It is understood that commuters became angry...
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A broken rail near the New Hyde Park station caused extensive delays on the very busy Long Island Railroad out of New York's Grand Central station in Manhattan on 1 October. The damaged rail gave rise...
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A Cook County jury awarded $29.5 million to a Chicago woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a derailment on 17 September 2005. The lawsuit was filed by Renea Poppel, who suffered...
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A Chicago teenager has been charged with a 'string of armed robberies' near two Metra (commuter rail) stations on the city's south side and a second suspect is still being sought by police.
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Dustin Moles, 33, employed by the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad since 2005, was fatally injured in a shunting derailment at Albertville, Alabama. He was crushed between a derailed tankcar and a...
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