A 57-vehicle Florida East Coast Railway freight train travelling up the coast from Miami on 21 December derailed the second of two locomotives and four wagons carrying containers at Rockledge at about...
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A number of wagons – most of them empty - in a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed on 16 December in Vance, Alabama, near Highway 11, but had no effect on road traffic in the area. The...
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Five Metrorail coaches were gutted when fire broke out at platform 15 on Cape Town’s main station on Sunday 27 December. No injuries were reported. The municipal fire department attended and...
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Ten CSX tankcars carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) derailed near New Martinsville, West Virginia, on 24 December. Four vehicles fell on their sides but there were no leaks and nobody was hurt....
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Heavy rains are believed to be responsible for the derailing of the locomotive and 26 tankcars in a freight train about 20km east of Julia Creek in Queensland. About 200,000 litres of sulphuric acid...
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The derailing of a Khurda-bound goods train between the Garividi and Cheepurupalli stations on 21 December disrupted train services in the Visakhapatnam-Palasa area. Some trains were cancelled, others...
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On 27 December, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway (BNSF) freight from California ran into Shoal Creek floodwaters in Neosho, Missouri. The train was stationary when it was swept off the line in...
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Crews attending the scene of a derailment in Attica, Indiana, on 2 January had to replace more than 120 metres of track that was torn up. Seven grain wagons in a train of the Norfolk Southern Railway...
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On Sunday morning 13 December, high winds blew down street signs, power lines, trees and advertising billboards in Lufkin, Texas. A train comprising 64 empty wagons was blown off the track. Loop 287/...
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Two days after the UK West Coast main-line north of Carlisle was submerged under more than 2 metres of water on 5 December, engineers managed to reopen it to traffic. Mud and other debris had to be...
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