On 23 February, in the worst Argentinian railway accident in 40 years. 50 people lost their lives when a packed morning peak-hour commuter train ran into the platform 2 buffers at Once station in the...
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On 9 February, an empty Santiago (Chile) metro electric set derailed and smashed through four motor cars, narrowly missed a children's playground, then ran into an apartment block. No injuries were...
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Thirty three people were injured, three seriously, when a train carrying 110 passengers collided with a freight train near the Ciudad Universitaria Jose Antonio Echeverria in Havana, Cuba. The driver...
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One person died and about 30 were injured in a collision between two commuter trains in a tunnel near Charallave, outside the Venezuelan capital Caracas. According to witnesses, one train suddenly...
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On 13 September, 11 people died in a horrific collision involving a bus and two passenger trains in the Flores suburban area of Buenos Aires. Initial reports indicated that the bus driver drove around...
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Four people died and 120 were injured when a passenger train crashed into another standing near the San Miguel station, about 30km outside Buenos Aires. Officials said 16 people remained in hospital,...
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The 149km mine railway operated by coal giant Cerrejon - Colombia's largest coal exporter - suffered its second bomb attack of 2011 just before midnight on 23 February. No casualties were reported and...
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The worst rail disaster in Jamaica's history, and the second worst rail disaster in the world at the time, occurred on Sunday 1 September 1957, when hundreds of members of the Holy Name Society of St...
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Passenger services to the world heritage site at Machu Picchu in Peru are to resume in stages as repairs to the line progress. At the end of January following heavy rains, severe flooding resulting in...
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Exceptionally heavy rain on 17 November in Pemberton, 152km north of Vancouver on the former British Columbia railway (BCR), flooded an estimated 160 acres of land adjacent to properties along...
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