FALL FROM BALCONY STOPS THE TRAINS

On 28 March, Metra suburban service on the BNSF line out of Chicago came to a halt after a woman reportedly in her 20s fell from an apartment balcony in the 1500 South Blue Island Avenue block,...

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FAILED LEVEL CROSSING GATES: MOTORISTS DIRECT TRAFFIC

Motorist Katherine Nations spent two hours directing traffic at a San Antonio (Texas) level crossing after electricity supply problems knocked out the warning system and disabled the gates in the...

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MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES CAUSED ACCIDENTS

America's National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued four recommendations regarding maintenance procedures in a statement on 11 March. These addressed safety issues raised during...

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FATAL COLLISION RESULTS IN CROSSING REVAMP

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DoT) is to relocate and realign a level crossing in Long Ridge Road, Redding, where two young people lost their lives in a collision with a train during...

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HIJACKED & SHOT AT MARLBORO STATION

On Wednesday 20 March, two men ordered Kevin Pietersen, who was waiting for his wife Corinne at Marlboro station, to get out of his car. He did so, but was shot through one arm, shattering his elbow,...

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BRISBANE CRASH BLAMED ON FALLING LEAVES

At 09:38 on 31 January 2013, a six-coach Queensland Rail (QR) commuter train ran through a dead-end road at Cleveland station, overran the buffers and demolished part of the recently refurbished...

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DERAILMENT HALTS AMTRAK

On 17 March, a freight train derailment near New Haven, Connecticut, caused a day-long disruption to Amtrak passenger service between Boston and New York. The first train operating on a normal...

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TANKCAR MORE THAN A METRE DOWN

Construction workers excavating during February at the site of a new apartment block in Wichita, Kansas, made a strange discovery. More than a metre down, they came across what looked like a railway...

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FLOODS CUT TANZANIAN CENTRAL LINE

Heavy rains during the second weekend in March caused flooding that washed out a portion of Tanzania's Central Line at Godegode in the Mpwapwa District. According to the Tanzania Daily News, published...

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ANGOLA: CFB RESUMES KUITO- LUENA RAIL SERVICE

In mid-March, heavy rains caused washouts in the newly repaired section of Caminhos de ferro de Benguela (CFB) between Kuito in central Bie province and Luena in eastern Moxico province. In one place...

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