The Council of Australian state governments has agreed to create a national safety regulatory system and to have the Australian Transport Safety Bureau act as the preferred investigator of rail...
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Though New York's Long Island Railroad (LIRR) uses third rail power, an overhead catenary problem disrupted service on 25 August. LIRR shares tracks with Amtrak and Metro-North trains, both of which...
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Business Day quotes Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) spokesman Sandile Simelane saying on 21 August that the company has a target to reduce safety-related incidents by 30%. The Railway Safety Regulator...
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At about 19:17 on 28 May 2008, a train travelling from London's Liverpool Street station to Southend Victoria collided with concrete debris lying on the track beneath the new GE19 bridge being...
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On 16 August, a man threw a woman in front of an oncoming Metrorail train on its way from Mitchells Plain to central Cape Town. A resident who lives alongside the railway line in Heinz Park told of...
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On 18 August, Metrorail technicians in the Western Cape battled to repair two signal equipment boxes after a botched cable theft attempt near Nyanga. The Kapteinsklip/Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha...
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Trains operations have resumed through Montana Rail Link's (MRL) Mullan Tunnel, which crosses under the Continental Divide near Blossburg, Montana. The line has been closed since a cave-in on 20...
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An Amtrak passenger train that broke down in the tunnel under New York's East River on 24 July caused extensive delays to Friday afternoon peak-hour commuter services on the Long Island Railroad...
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Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Bureau (RAIB) is looking into collisions that occurred between two open doors on freight container doors and three passenger trains at Eden Valley south of...
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On the morning of 17 August, a freight train carrying copper from Zambia to South Africa derailed at Stanmore Siding, about 96km south of Bulawayo on the line to Beitbridge, The Bulawayo Chronicle...
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