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Investigation into a collision between passenger trains at Salisbury Tunnel Junction, Wiltshire, 31 October 2021.
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In response to today's (2 November) statement from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) regarding the Salisbury collision, Martin Frobisher, Network Rail's safety and engineering director, said: 'Sunday's accident was incredibly frightening for everyone involved and our thoughts are with everyone injured or affected in any way.
'Initial findings suggest that low adhesion played a key part in causing the collision. It's an issue that affects railways across the world and is something that we, and our train operator colleagues, work hard to combat so that we can run trains safely and reliably throughout autumn, and why incidents such as the one in Salisbury at the weekend are incredibly rare. 'We will continue to work closely with investigators to understand what happened and what more we can do to help prevent this happening again.' (Permalink) Crash Fisherton Tunnel Low adhesion Salisbury Salisbury Tunnel Junction |
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Rail accident inspectors have said it is too early to release indications of what caused the collision between two trains at Salisbury on Sunday evening. But by now CCTV and data logs from signals and trains are likely to have given them a strong idea of what led the Great Western and South Western Railway services to crash into each other. That might prove to be a fault with the signal; or that a train passed a red light; that the brakes failed; or even that the brakes worked but the wheels slid, in the season when leaves on the line can make the rails treacherous.
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Investigators trying to establish cause of collision between two trains that left 13 people needing treatment. Rail investigators are urgently trying to establish the cause of a collision between two trains that led to at least 13 people needing hospital treatment. Firefighters and other emergency workers evacuated 100 people from the trains in Salisbury, Wiltshire, after the accident on Sunday night. One of the train drivers had to be cut free from his cab.
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It is thought about 12 people have been injured and a train driver is believed to be trapped.
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The deaths of seven passengers in the Croydon tram crash were accidental, the jury at the coroner's inquest in south London has decided, in a verdict that was met with anger by families of the victims. In a narrative verdict, the jury said contributing factors were that the driver had become disoriented and not braked in time, while TOL, the tram operator, had failed to adequately account for the risk of a high-speed derailment, or ensure a just culture where drivers felt able to report health and safety concerns.
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On Sunday, 21 July 1991, at 21.55, two trains crashed on a single track at a junction just west of Newton railway station in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.
The collision killed the two drivers and two passengers and injured 22 more people. Today, (Wednesday, 21 July), a short commemoration service at Newton station took place, led by Railway Chaplain, Graham Whitehead. Stuart Scott, brother of driver David Scott who was killed, also said a few words. (Permalink) Crash Newton |
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A metro train that crashed through a barrier near Rotterdam is left suspended thanks to a sculpture.
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A heritage railway train carrying 77 passengers collided with a car on a level crossing in Mid Wales. An investigation is underway after the incident which happened at around 11.45am on Thursday on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway line.
The 823 Countess locomotive was passing over the level crossing at Cyfronydd Station when it collided with a red Chevrolet car. The driver of the car escaped unharmed, along with the 77 passengers and crew on board the train, however significant damage was caused to the car and the locomotive. (Permalink) Crash Cyfronydd Level crossing |
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Thirty six people were killed and 50 injured after an express train derailed in south-east India on Saturday night in the latest disaster to hit one of the world’s largest rail networks.
Eight coaches and the engine of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar express derailed at 11pm near Kuneru railway station in Vizianagram district of Andhra Pradesh state. “The death toll has gone up to 36. It is a possibility that it may rise further,†said Anil Kumar Saxena, national railway spokesman. (Permalink) Crash Derailment India |
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A German court has sentenced a train controller to three and a half years in jail over a rail disaster in Bavaria which killed 12 people and injured 89.
The 40-year-old defendant, named as Michael P, admitted making a signalling error and dialling the wrong emergency number. Two commuter trains collided near Bad Aibling in February. The controller also admitted having played a computer game on his mobile phone just before the crash. (Permalink) Bad Aibling Crash |
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A Virgin Voyager train has hit a car at a level crossing in South Lanarkshire.
It is thought the train dragged the vehicle 80 yards during the incident at the Cleghorn level crossing, shortly before 7pm on Saturday. Services in the area have seen major disruption, with trains through Carluke and Carstairs cancelled or delayed. Eyewitnesses said the car turned on to the railway by accident, and the occupants were able to get out before it was hit. There are no casualties and the train, which was bound for Glasgow from Preston, did not derail. (Permalink) Cleghorn Cleghorn Level Crossing Crash  Cleghorn: Don't even think about it! A southbound Pendolino speeds south over Cleghorn level crossing near Lanark on 24 May 2007.  Cleghorn: Looking north over the level crossing at Cleghorn station on the WCML towards Glasgow around 1944. The station closed to passengers in January 1965. |
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TEHRAN: The head of Iranian Railways resigned on Saturday after three of his employees were arrested over a collision between two trains that left at least 44 people dead.
Mohsen Poor-Seyed Aghaie, a deputy minister in the transport ministry and head of the state-owned railway company, appeared on state television late Saturday and announced his resignation “as a social responsibility and out of sympathy for the survivors of this accidentâ€. Two trains collided and one caught fire in the northern province of Semnan on Friday, killing 44 people and injuring dozens more, in one of the country’s worst ever rail disasters. (Permalink) Crash Fire |
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The death toll following the derailment of a train in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state has reached at least 115, with more than 150 injured, police say.
Fourteen carriages of the Indore-Patna Express derailed just after 03:00 local time on Sunday (21:30 GMT Saturday) near the city of Kanpur. Rescuers are still trying to reach the injured and recover the dead from the twisted carriages. The cause of the crash near the village of Pukhrayan is not yet known. Fourteen carriages of the Indore-Patna Express derailed just after 03:00 local time on Sunday (21:30 GMT Saturday) near the city of Kanpur. Rescuers are still trying to reach the injured and recover the dead from the twisted carriages. The cause of the crash near the village of Pukhrayan is not yet known. (Permalink) Crash Derailment India |
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The driver of a tram that crashed, killing seven people and injuring dozens more, is being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter.
The 42-year-old, from Beckenham, was at the wheel when the vehicle derailed and toppled over in Croydon, south London, just after 06:00 GMT on Wednesday. More than 50 people were injured and it is feared the death toll will rise. Claims the tram was exceeding permitted speeds and that the driver may have fallen asleep are being investigated. (Permalink) Crash |
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A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in the city of Hoboken, in the US state of New Jersey.
Eyewitnesses at the scene have reported casualties but the extent of injuries is unclear. Emergency crews have arrived. Photos on social media show extensive damage to the train carriage and station. A local radio station anchor said the train went through the station and ticket barriers and 'into the reception area'. (Permalink) Crash |
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A giant, £2 million sculpture that looks like a train crash has been shortlisted to stand outside a Birmingham railway station.Battered engines lie on their side as if they have come off the rails in a terrible accident. And although the sculpture would be modelled in stone, they could look like they are covered in human skin.
Birmingham artist Roger Hiorns' creation is one of five vying for pride of place outside Curzon Street Station. (Permalink) Crash |
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A station master in southern Italy has admitted he allowed a train to go on a single track, minutes before a deadly collision with an oncoming train.
Twenty-three people died and 52 others were hurt in the head-on crash on a single track between Andria and Corato in the Apulia region on Tuesday. 'I let the train go, I was the one who gave the signal,' Andria station master Vito Piccarreta told Italian media. But he was adamant he was not the only one at fault. Mr Piccarreta, a railway employee with 24 years of service, was quoted by La Stampa and other newspapers as saying: 'I'm not the only one at fault, everyone is blaming me. But I'm a victim too.' (Permalink) Crash |
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A railway crash that caused a section of line to close for two weeks was caused by a train travelling at 23mph above the speed limit, a report has found.
The crash between a moving and stationary freight train involved 18 wagons and a locomotive derailing at a work site near Logan in East Ayrshire on August 1, 2015. There were no injuries but the trains and track suffered 'substantial' damage and a minor road was blocked by one of the wagons. The line between Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, and Dumfries was closed for a fortnight while a crane removed the wreckage from the scene. (Permalink) Crash |
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Twenty-three people have been killed and dozens hurt in a head-on collision involving two passenger trains in southern Italy, officials say.
The two trains were on a single-track line at the time of the crash, between the coastal towns of Bari and Barletta. The emergency services have been trying to free passengers from the shattered carriages, near the town of Andria. (Permalink) Crash |
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At least three people have been killed and nine injured in a train crash in the Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy, near Liege, reports say.
A passenger train crashed into the back of a goods train at high speed at about 23:00 (21:00 GMT), said Belgium's rail infrastructure manager, Infrabel. The two trains were on the same track, a spokesman for Infrabel said. A local mayor said the passenger train was in a terrible state and it was fortunate there were no more victims. Francis Dejon, major of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse province, said the front carriage of the passenger train had completely folded back on itself. (Permalink) Crash |
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A lorry has crashed into a railway bridge emblazoned with 'low bridge' warning signs in London.
The crash happened on the A205 South Circular in Tulse Hill, Lambeth, on Wednesday morning. The driver was treated by paramedics after suffering a hand injury, police said. Southern Railway said lorries hit the bridge roughly twice every month, causing cancellations and severe delays. (Permalink) Crash Southern Railway  Port Vendre: It is often said that the road loading gauge benefits road hauliers over rail but this is not the case a short distance south of Port Vendres, on the road to Banyuls sur Mer, as signified by the tight ...  Dumbarton East: Mind your Heads! Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway. Low bridge over Castlegreen Street, Dumbarton.  Brock: Badger Bridge was a well known WCML spotting location in steam days as it overlooked Brock water troughs. The badger is the emblem of the Fitzherbert-Brockholes family from nearby Claughton Hal ... |
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Between 15 and 20 people are thought to have been injured when two trains collided at a railway station.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the crash at Plymouth Railway Station was a 'low impact collision' and they were not aware of any serious injuries. Emergency services were called to the scene at about 15:35 BST on Sunday. Some of the casualties would be going to Derriford Hospital, South Western Ambulance said. (Permalink) Crash |
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A car has been shunted several feet down the track in a crash with a tram.
The collision involving a Midland Metro tram happened at the station in Bilston Road in Ettingshall, Wolverhampton, at about 16:00 BST on Sunday. The car driver, a man in his 60s, was taken to hospital as a precaution. Midland Metro said: 'The incident happened at the Priestfield tram stop car park. Emergency services were called and the full service was later resumed at around 17:30 BST.' [From Mark Bartlett] (Permalink) Crash  Wolverhampton St. Georges: Midland Metro tram 04 arrives at the Wolverhampton St. Georges terminus on an early evening service from Birmingham Snow Hill in June 2011. Although the station was built for two track working, and a ... |
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A LARGE goods vehicle carrying a steam locomotive on its trailer has crashed on the M5 northbound near junction four in Bromsgrove.
Hereford and Worcester Fire Control were called at 4.46pm on Monday, March 21. Share article One fire crew from Bromsgrove and two from Droitwich rushed to the scene and made the vehicle safe upon arrival. The incident was left with High Ways’ specialist recovery agency. [From Richard Buckby] (Permalink) Crash |
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Human error by a train controller was to blame for a crash in Bavaria, Germany, last week that killed 11 people, prosecutors said.
Dozens more were injured after two commuter trains collided on a single-track stretch of railway. An area controller opened the track to the two trains and tried to warn the drivers, according to the prosecutors. The man, a 39-year-old, is likely to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and could face five years in jail. (Permalink) Crash |
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A French high-speed train that derailed on a test run in November - killing 11 - was operating at 'massively excessive speed', according to the investigation.
The train was on a test run back in mid-November last year when it flew off the rails at a bridge, crashing into the canal below. [From Richard Buckby] (Permalink) Crash |
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German police have rejected as speculation a report that a line controller turned off an automatic safety system shortly before two passenger trains collided in Bavaria.
Ten people were killed and scores more were injured, 18 seriously. An unconfirmed report suggested that an automatic braking system had been switched off to allow one of the trains to make up time. But a police spokesman rejected the theory as 'pure speculation'. 'Discard that, we reject that,' a spokesman told local broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. (Permalink) Crash |
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Two passenger trains have collided in the German state of Bavaria, with police saying several people have been killed and scores injured.
The head-on crash happened at Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich. One of the trains was derailed in the crash and several carriages were overturned, German media reported. Police said rescue teams were trying to free people still trapped in the wreckage. (Permalink) Crash |
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A high-speed TGV train has derailed near the eastern French city of Strasbourg, killing at least seven people, officials say.
The crash happened during a test run in the town of Eckwersheim, on a new Paris-Strasbourg line. Reports say technicians were on board the train and seven people were injured. The injured have been taken to hospital by helicopters. The AFP news agency quotes the Alsace regional prefecture as saying the derailment happened due to 'excessive speed'. Pictures later showed the locomotive partly submerged in a canal alongside the track. Wreckage was also scattered in a field beside the track. Rescue teams - including divers - are working at the scene. (Permalink) Crash Derailment SNCF TGV |
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Rail travel between Glasgow and Dumfries could be disrupted for two weeks after a crash between two trains during engineering work at the weekend.
The track was damaged at Logan, just east of Cumnock in Ayrshire, when the trains carrying ballast collided and wagons were derailed on Saturday. Scotrail said a replacement bus service would be running between Dumfries and Kilmarnock. Network Rail said it could take 10 days to move the derailed wagons. It will also take about three days to repair the damaged track after the wagons are removed. (Permalink) Crash Cumnock Derailment Logan ScotRail |
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Two freight trains collided during engineering work on the track near Cumnock in Ayrshire, Network Rail has said.
No-one was injured in the incident which took place at about 11:20 on Saturday but a number of wagons derailed and the track was damaged. (Permalink) Crash Network Rail |
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A memorial service has been held at Gretna Green for the victims of Britain's worst rail disaster.
More than 200 people died when three trains crashed at Quintinshill in Dumfries and Galloway on 22 May 1915. One of the trains was a World War One troop transport carrying hundreds of Scottish soldiers who were bound for Gallipoli. (Permalink) Crash Quintinshill  Gretna [CR]: The former Gretna station...and the spot where, one fateful May morning in 1915, signalman James Tinsley boarded the local to ride up to Quintinshill to start his shift.  Quintinshill Loops: Bridge 32 overlooks the site of the Quintinshill disaster. A memorial was unveiled at 3pm this afternoon by the late Denis Muir's daughter. A hymn, a prayer and a minute's silence were followed by a l ...  Quintinshill Loops: Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92233 powers a freight north past the loops at Quintinshill in November 1964 as the signalman looks out from the open window of Quintinshill signal box. |
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An unmanned train ran for more than a mile before crashing into coaches on a heritage railway in Leicestershire, rail accident investigators have said.
The report said no one was injured but damage was sustained by the vehicles during the collision on the Great Central Railway, in Quorn, in May 2014. The engine's handbrakes were not applied and the coach was not secured with brakes, the investigation found. The Great Central Railway (GCR) said it had since reinforced its procedures. (Permalink) Crash |
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A train hit the trailer of a tractor Saturday at a road crossing in western Germany, killing the train driver and one passenger and injuring at least 20 others, police said.
Police spokesman Jochen Laschke said a regional train heading to the small town of Ibbenbueren from the city of Osnabrueck collided with the trailer of a farmer's tractor that was loaded with a tank full of manure. Laschke said the accident took place in a rural area near Ibbenbueren, 440 kilometers (275 miles) west of Berlin. Three of those injured were in severe condition, police said. (Permalink) Crash |
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A senior retired army officer has said some soldiers were 'probably' shot in mercy killings after Britain's deadliest rail disaster, 100 years ago during World War One.
The crash, at Quintinshill near Gretna, involved a military train filled with troops - most of them from Leith - two passenger trains and two goods trains. It claimed an estimated 228 lives and left hundreds more injured. There are no official army accounts of the alleged shootings on 22 May 1915. (Permalink) Crash Quintinshill  Larbert: Plaque at Larbert station commemorating those who left on the troop train for Liverpool docks bound for Gallipoli in the early hours of 22nd May 1915 only to perish later that morning at Quintinshill. ...  Quintinshill Loops: The signal box at Quintinshill in 1970, seen from a passing southbound train. Quintinshill Loops: Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92233 powers a freight north past the loops at Quintinshill in November 1964 as the signalman looks out from the open window of Quintinshill signal box. |
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A passenger train has derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others, officials in the US city say.
Up to 10 carriages of the Washington-New York Amtrak service went off the track on Tuesday evening. Emergency officials and fire-fighters are at the scene looking for passengers who may be trapped in the wreckage. More than 240 people were on board Train 188, the officials say. It is not known what caused the derailment. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was dispatching a team of investigators to the crash site. (Permalink) Amtrak Crash Derailment |
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There has not been much about it in the media, but at the beginning of March Britain was less than a minute away from what might have been one of the country's worst train crashes.
In euphemistic railway speak, it was ranked as a 25 SPAD at SN45. To you and me, a charter steam train carrying hundreds of leisure passengers ran through a red light approaching a junction on a main line, about a minute after an express train had gone through at about 70mph. (Permalink) Crash  Pleasington: Heading west and with the evening sun illuminating the smokebox, ex Southern Railway Bulleid 'Battle of Britain' class pacific No. 34067 Tangmere makes a fine sight passing through Pleasington ...  Gloucester: Bulleid <I>Battle of Britain</I> Pacific no 34067 <I>Tangmere</I> waits to depart from Gloucester for Cardiff on 21 April 2013 - day 2 of the <I>Great Britain VI</I> ...  Avoncliff: Bulleid unrebuilt 'Battle of Britain' Pacific no 34067 'Tangmere' passing Avoncliff Station on the Bath to Westbury line on 19 August 2012 with 'The Weymouth Seaside Express'. |
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A mistake by a train driver has been blamed for a rail crash that demolished closed level crossing gates in a Norfolk village.
A train cleaning leaves from the line between Norwich and Great Yarmouth ignored warnings and hit the gates in Lingwood on 31 October 2014. Network Rail said both gates were 'struck, damaged and removed by the impact' but no-one was injured. Direct Rail Services said it had 're-briefed and retrained' the driver. (Permalink) Crash Network Rail  Lingwood: Platform scene at Lingwood station, Norfolk, on the line between Norwich and Great Yarmouth, on a warm summer's day in June 2010. The view is east towards the level crossing over Station Road. |
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High winds blew a container off a freight train travelling at 75mph (120km/h), investigators have said.
The empty 30ft (9m) cargo crashed through trees and a wall on an embankment near Scout Green, Cumbria. No-one was injured but the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the potential for more serious consequences was evident. There were 62mph (99km/h) cross winds when the container fell on on 7 March, investigators said. (Permalink) Crash RAIB |
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Two West Virginia towns have been evacuated after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames.
Local websites published images of large flames and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river. At least 14 cars were affected and one plunged into the Kanawha River, state officials said. [From various contibutors] (Permalink) Crash |
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A series of events will mark the 100th anniversary of the UK's worst rail disaster later this year.
A total of 227 people died when three trains crashed at Quintinshill Bridge near Gretna Green on 22 May 1915. Plans have been drawn up to open a new roll of honour at Gretna Old Church and to plant a commemorative tree at Gretna Green war memorial. A descendent of one of the survivors is expected to lay a wreath at the bridge. (Permalink) Crash Quintinshill Gretna [CR]: The former Gretna station...and the spot where, one fateful May morning in 1915, signalman James Tinsley boarded the local to ride up to Quintinshill to start his shift. Quintinshill Loops: Bridge 32 overlooks the site of the Quintinshill disaster. A memorial was unveiled at 3pm this afternoon by the late Denis Muir's daughter. A hymn, a prayer and a minute's silence were followed by a l ... Quintinshill Loops: Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92233 powers a freight north past the loops at Quintinshill in November 1964 as the signalman looks out from the open window of Quintinshill signal box. |
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Network Rail has been blamed for putting 200 passengers' lives at risk when a high-speed Heathrow Express train crashed into engineering equipment left on the tracks by its employees.
The morning service from Heathrow to Paddington slammed into a heavy metal trolley close to Stockley junction shortly after 10am yesterday. Network Rail workers took nearly three hours to restore the service after the “mangled” trolley was stuck under the front of the train. (Permalink) Crash Network Rail  Paddington: Heathrow Express 332010 in Vodaphone advertising livery at Paddington on 25 July.  Stockley Park: A train loading at the Hanson Stockley Park facility near West Drayton on 20 July 2005. View north west from the window of a Paddington bound Heathrow Express on the flyover spanning the GW main line ...  West Ealing Junction: A Heathrow Express bound for Paddington runs past the camera towards West Ealing station on 4 June 2011. On the far left is the Greenford line. |
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A train used for clearing leaves off the line has crashed through a level-crossing in Norfolk.
The rail-head treatment unit 'went through the barrier' at Lingwood station about 14:20 GMT, said Network Rail. There are no reports of injuries. The barriers were closed on Station Road in the village to allow traffic across the line when the train hit. Services between Norwich and Great Yarmouth are being diverted through Reepham, said Greater Anglia (Permalink) Crash Network Rail Lingwood: Platform scene at Lingwood station, Norfolk, on the line between Norwich and Great Yarmouth, on a warm summer's day in June 2010. The view is east towards the level crossing over Station Road. |
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Dozens of people have been injured in a train collision in southern France, according to media reports.
A high-speed TGV train on the Pau-Bayonne line was transporting 178 people when it crashed into a regional TER train carrying 70 passengers. Initial reports indicate the TGV train was stopped on the tracks and restarting when the crash occurred near the town of Denguin. At least 25 people were reported injured, nine of them seriously. (Permalink) Crash |
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An accident where a rail worker was badly hurt by a runaway maintenance vehicle has been blamed on operator failure and brake design flaws.
The road rail vehicle (RRV) ran away as it was being transferred to the tracks in Glasgow on 21 April last year. It crashed through scaffolding, injuring a worker, before coming to a stop at Queen Street Station (Permalink) Crash |
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Russian investigators have announced the arrest of two Moscow metro workers for safety breaches after a train derailed, killing 21 people.
The railway foreman and his assistant are suspected of using inadequate wiring during works on the line in May, the Investigative Committee said. They have been questioned and charges are expected to be brought soon, it said in a statement (in Russian). A power surge is said to have caused the crash, which injured 162 people. (Permalink) Crash |
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The death toll in Tuesday's derailment on the Moscow metro now stands at 21, the Russian health ministry says.
Scores were injured, some seriously, when a packed commuter train braked abruptly between stations in the west of the city in the morning rush hour. Some of those hurt were carried out of the tunnel on stretchers, with the most serious cases airlifted to hospital. The cause of the crash - one of the worst incidents ever on the metro - is reported to be a power surge. (Permalink) Crash Derailment Moscow Metro Russia |
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has published a report into its preliminary examination of the crash, which took place at around 12.35pm on Monday, May 12.
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A man has died after his car was hit by a rush-hour train on a rail crossing in North Yorkshire.
The crash near the village of Rillington, near Malton, involved a First TransPennine Express train, which was travelling from Scarborough to Liverpool Lime Street at the time. (Permalink) Crash Level crossing Rillington |
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A freight train used for taking spent nuclear fuel to the Sellafield site in Cumbria hit a car on a level crossing, police said.
The vehicles travelled 300m (984ft) down the track following the crash at the New Road crossing, Silverdale, at about 19:00 GMT on Tuesday. No one was injured but both drivers were treated for shock. The train was not loaded at the time. [From Mark Bartlett] (Permalink) Crash Level crossing New Road Crossing  Silverdale: A pair of Northern single units approaching Silverdale level crossing in September 2012 heading for Carnforth and Lancaster with a Cumbrian Coast service. |
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A former Derbyshire firefighter who attended a fatal rail crash scene 50 years ago has organised a special service to mark its anniversary.
A train driver and fireman, both from Leicester, were killed when their diesel locomotive collided head on with a freight train at Stanton Gate. Peter Mee, from Ilkeston, was a fireman for the railway network when the crash happened on 6 December, 1963. A service will be held at the rail bridge by the crash site later. [From Richard Buckby] (Permalink) Crash  |
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A passenger train has crashed in the Bronx area of New York City, and US media are reporting that at least four people have been killed.
Dozens are reported to have been injured as the Metro-North train's carriages came off the tracks. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said none of the carriages had gone into the adjacent Hudson or Harlem rivers. The train was the 05:54 from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station. (Permalink) Bronx Crash Derailment New York |
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The Virgin train, travelling from London Euston to Chester, hit the platform after pulling in to its destination at about 12:10 GMT.
A 64-year-old passenger was taken to hospital suffering back injuries, the North West Ambulance Service said. Jake Pickering posted on Twitter: 'The @VirginTrains train I was on from London has just crashed at Chester station. I believe everyone is okay.' No other trains were involved and there were not believed to be any serious injuries, Virgin confirmed. [From Mark Bartlett] (Permalink) Crash |
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At least 24 people have been killed and 28 injured as a train crashed into a minibus and other vehicles south of Egypt's capital Cairo, officials say.
The freight train, travelling from the city of Beni Suef, hit the vehicles at a crossing about 40km (25 miles) from Cairo, they say. State TV says many of those killed on the bus were members of the extended family returning from a wedding. Egypt's roads and railways have a notoriously poor safety record. (Permalink) Crash |
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Work is to be carried out to make level crossings safer after 33 near misses and two crashes in Wales in the past year.
Network Rail will be building footbridges, adding new barriers and using more modern technology. It is also closing some level crossings and appointing managers at nine. CCTV captured this near miss by a driver on a level crossing in Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, in 2009. [See Link] (Permalink) Crash Network Rail |
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Officials said nobody was at the controls of an empty commuter train that slammed into another train at a suburban Chicago station Monday, injuring dozens of commuters, but they don't know how the train got moving.
Video footage shows that nobody was driving the 4-car Chicago Transit Authority train as it rumbled the wrong way toward the train parked at the Harlem Avenue station about 10 miles west of Chicago. But investigators were trying to determine if it somehow started moving itself or if someone sent it on its way, intentionally or otherwise. (Permalink) Crash |
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A double-decker bus collided with a passenger train in Canada's capital on Wednesday, ripping off the front of the bus and killing six people. Witnesses said the bus went through a closed crossing barrier, and passengers said they screamed 'Stop, stop!' at the driver just before impact.
Officials said 30 people were injured, 10 critically, at the peak of Ottawa's morning rush hour. The cause of the crash was not yet clear, said John Manconi, from bus operator OC Transpo. (Permalink) Crash |
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Volunteers on a Derbyshire heritage railway plan to hold an overnight vigil in a signal box to commemorate the centenary of a train disaster.
The signal box at Butterley Station was formerly situated at Ais Gill - the site of a crash between two locomotives on 2 September 1913. Sixteen people died in the crash on the Settle to Carlisle line. The Midland Railway Trust, which is holding the event, said the disaster led to important safety changes. (Permalink) Crash |
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The driver of the high-speed train involved in last week's Spanish train disaster was responding to a phone call from the rail company when the crash took place, according to a preliminary investigation released on Tuesday. The driver, Francisco Garzón, has been provisionally charged with multiple counts of negligent homicide.
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At least 40 people have been injured, five of them seriously, in a collision between two trains in western Switzerland.
The crash happened in Granges-pres-Marnand in Vaud canton, about 50km (30 miles) south-west of the capital, Bern. Reports say the regional trains collided head-on in the early evening. The driver of one of the trains was still unaccounted for and thought to be inside the wreckage, police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said. (Permalink) Crash |
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The driver of the Spanish train that derailed last week killing 79 people says he was 'careless' when he drove at speed around a bend, reports say.
Francisco Jose Garzon Amo was released from custody on Sunday. He faces multiple counts of reckless homicide. A large funeral Mass is due to take place in city of Santiago de Compostela, where the train crashed. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who comes from the city, and members of the royal family are expected to attend. Correspondents say the tragedy has shocked residents of Santiago de Compostela, a Catholic pilgrimage site in the north-western province of Galicia. (Permalink) Crash |
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The driver of a train that crashed near the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday killing 78 people is due to appear before a judge.
Francisco Jose Garzon Amo has been detained on suspicion of reckless homicide and the judge will decide whether to press formal charges. Mr Garzon is suspected of driving too fast on a bend. Reports say the train was travelling at more than double the speed limit at the time of the crash. Mr Garzon, 52, was pictured being escorted away from the wreckage by police, blood pouring from a head injury. He left hospital on Saturday and was immediately taken to the central police station in Santiago. He has so far refused to make a statement or answer questions (Permalink) Crash |
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Even before the horrific crashes this month in France and Spain, Britain's railways were the safest in Europe. Almost six years have elapsed since a train passenger died in an accident in the UK, and a European commission study this year showed the UK has the lowest fatality rate of 27 national rail networks over a decade.
While industry figures warn against complacency and stress accidents could still occur, most believe a crash exactly like that in Spain could not have happened here because of the train protection and warning system (TPWS). All European countries have variants of warning systems. But Britain's – initially regarded as a cut-price, interim solution in the wake of the 1999 Ladbroke Grove crash where 31 died after a train passed a red light – has proved remarkably effective. Transmitters have been installed in 20,000 risk locations: before every platform and single track – and ahead of curves on the track where speed limits are significantly reduced. If the train is going too fast, it brakes automatically – regardless of the driver. (Permalink) Crash |
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The train which derailed in Spain killing 80 people was travelling at excessive speed, says the country's transport minister.
However, Rafael Catala could not confirm what speed the eight-carriage train was travelling at when it hit the bend just outside Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern region of Galicia. The speed limit at the curved section of track is 80km/h (50mph). But the El Pais newspaper reported that one of the two drivers on board said he was doing 190km/h (118mph) when it jumped the rails. All of the passenger cars and the two engine units were thrown from the tracks. One of the Renfe class S730's middle carriages was thrown several metres through the air, landing upside down on the other side of a wall. El Pais said the tragedy 'could have been avoided' if the train had been using the European Train Control System (ETCS) which stops drivers breaking the speed limit. (Permalink) Crash |
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At least 78 people have been killed in the passenger train derailment in north-western Spain on Wednesday.
More than 140 were hurt, 20 seriously, after all eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train came off the tracks near Santiago de Compostela. Media reports say the train may have been travelling at more than twice the speed limit around a curve. It is one of Spain's worst ever train crashes. PM Mariano Rajoy has declared three days of national mourning. (Permalink) Crash Derailment Santiago de Compostela |
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Eight passengers were injured in a crash involving two trains at a station in Norfolk early on Sunday morning. The accident happened at 12.10am when a two-carriage Greater Anglia train hit a stationary and empty East Midlands train in the 'low speed' collision at the main station in Norwich, Norfolk. [From Mark Bartlett]
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Seven people have been killed in a train crash at Bretigny-sur-Orge, south of the French capital Paris, officials say.
The intercity train had just left Paris and was heading towards Limoges when it derailed, crashing into a station platform at about 17:00 (16:00 GMT). Passengers were said to be trapped inside the train and a local official said there were 'many casualties'. (Permalink) Crash |
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A speeding commuter train slammed into another that had stopped between stations during the morning commute on Thursday in suburban Buenos Aires. Three passengers were confirmed dead and more than 300 injured on a line that has been under Argentinian government control since a deadly crash in 2012.
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At least three people have been killed and more than 155 wounded in a rush hour train crash in the outskirts Buenos Aires, Argentine officials say.
The accident happened near the Castelar station, about 30km (19 miles) west of the capital, when a commuter train hit another empty, stationary train. Rescue crews and volunteers went to the scene to help the injured, who were rushed to nearby hospitals. The cause of the crash is still being investigated. (Permalink) Crash |
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Two people died and 14 were injured when a train carrying toxic, flammable chemicals derailed and caused a major fire near the Belgian city of Ghent.
The train was travelling from the Netherlands to Ghent's seaport when it derailed as it changed tracks between the towns of Schellebelle and Wetteren at about 02.00 (00.00 GMT). Six of the train's 13 cars derailed and three caught fire, setting off a series of explosions. [From Mark Bartlett] (Permalink) Crash |
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A section of the A9 in the Highlands has been closed after a crane crashed onto the railway line.
Northern Constabulary said the crane fell on to the tracks in village of Portgower in Sutherland. The A9 between Helmsdale and Brora was closed in both directions at about 15:20 on Sunday to allow recovery work to take place. There is no alternative route or diversion. Trains services between Inverness and Wick also faced disruptions. [From John Gray] (Permalink) A9 Brora Crash Helmsdale Portgower |
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At least 300 people, including many schoolchildren, have been injured when two passenger trains collided near the South African capital, Pretoria, officials say. Medical workers say 28 people were seriously hurt. The theft of cables used for signalling, compounded by human error, caused the crash, said the head of South Africa's rail authority.
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Dozens of people have been injured in a head-on collision between two commuter trains in the Austrian capital Vienna.
Two people, including one of the train drivers and a passenger, remain in critical condition. Thirty-nine others were injured, three of them seriously, but no deaths were reported by Monday afternoon. (Permalink) Crash |
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The evening of January 5, 2005, was dry and cool in Graniteville, South Carolina. At 6:10, a 12-car Norfolk Southern freight train pulled up to the Avondale Mills textile plant, and Jim Thornton, a conductor with 18 years’ experience, climbed down from the locomotive to open a switch and let the train roll onto a siding. It was getting close to the hour by which, according to law, the crew had to quit for the day and rest. After the workers had shut down the train, Thornton called a taxi to take him, the engineer, and the brakeman to a nearby motel. It never occurred to him that, for the first time in his life, he’d failed to check the position of a switch that he’d opened.
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A cleaning woman has stolen an empty commuter train in a suburb of Stockholm and crashed it into a house, injuring herself, Swedish officials say. She drove the four-carriage train out of the depot for about a mile (1.6km) until it jumped the tracks, ending up wedged into a three-story building.
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At least 19 people have died and more than 100 injured in a train derailment south of Cairo, according to officials.
The official Mena news agency quoted health ministry officials who said 107 wounded were being treated in hospitals near the site of the accident in Giza's Badrasheen neighbourhood over Monday night. They said the number of dead was expected to rise. (Permalink) Cairo Crash Derailment Egypt |
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A WOMAN cheated death by a split second when her car was hit by a steam train on a level crossing.
The accident happened at the Fox Park level crossing, near Newton-le-Willows, in North Yorkshire on Saturday (October 20) afternoon. The Wensleydale Railway train was ferrying passengers from Leyburn to Bedale when it collided with a car travelling on a farm track. Amazingly, the only occupant of the car, a female driver, walked away from the accident unscathed, but was left very shaken. (Permalink) Crash  Wensley: A westbound train on the Wensleydale Railway about to pass over Wensley station level crossing on its way to Redmire in October 2004.  Leyburn: Leyburn station, seen from the overbridge looking east in August 2012, with a Wensleydale Railway DMU waiting to depart for Redmire. As the line now hosts steam as well as diesel services the redundan ... |
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A teenage car driver remains in a serious condition but is said to be 'improving' after a level crossing crash in south west Scotland.
A train struck a car at Dunragit village near Stranraer at about 13:45 on Sunday. (Permalink) Crash Dunragit Level crossing Stranraer  Dunragit: View from a Dumfries to Stranraer service approaching Dunragit in June 1965. The locomotive is self-weighing tender-fitted Black 5 44677. Sister engine 45164 waits in the station with an eastbound 'Po ...  Dunragit: Approaching the level crossing at Dunragit from the north in the spring of 2007. The former station, six miles east of Stranraer Harbour, closed to passengers in 1965. The plaque alongside the back do ... |
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An investigation is under way after a lorry and a train collided at a level crossing at Whitland, Carmarthenshire.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch is looking into the crash at Henllan Amgoed - the Llanboidy crossing - just before 16:00 BST on Friday. Initially there were reports of three injuries on the Arriva Trains service. But British Transport Police said later there were no reported injuries after the 'glancing blow' to the 15:10 BST Milford Haven to Manchester train. A similar incident happened at the same level crossing in December 2011 when a passenger train was involved in a crash with a lorry and trailer carrying hay. (Permalink) Crash  Whitland: Token collection taking place at Whitland on 23 May 2012 from the 17.09 Pembroke Dock - Swansea service, with the unit standing over the level crossing. Due to an earlier level crossing failure near P ... |
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A motorist was killed when his car collided with a passenger train at a level crossing close to the Norfolk and Cambridgeshire border.
The Kia Sportage car was struck by the King's Lynn to London service near Downham Market, Norfolk, at 13:15 BST. (Permalink) Crash  Downham Market: Looking south through Downham Market station from Fairfield Rd crossing on 21st February 2018. With the station retaining the Network South East branding and paint scheme, the tall lines of platform l ...  Downham Market: What surprised me most about the station at Downham Market was the fact that it seemed to be in a time warp from the late 80s or early 90s. The station signage has retained the Network South East bran ...  Downham Market: Looking north over the LC at Downham Market in February 2018 with the SB on the left and station buildings beyond. The main station is on the up platform on the right. |
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The collision between the 1940s steam loco, a Hawksworth Pannier tank engine, and a 1960s diesel engine happened at the Dereham station of the Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) just after noon on Saturday.
MNR spokesman Leslie Dale this week confirmed that no one was injured when the crash occurred after the 11.30am steam train service had pulled in from Wymondham. [From Richard Buckby] (Permalink) Crash  Dereham: A train of empty polybulks squeaks and clanks to a halt at Dereham in July 1987. Running several hours late, it is heading for the granary at North Elmham. One of the crew of 31 106 has now to brave t ...  Dereham: Locomotive lineup in the sidings of the Mid Norfolk Railway at Dereham on 18 October.  Dereham: Preserved BR Class 101 DMU no L836 receives attention at Dereham on 24 June 2011 see image [[36181]]. |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal investigators want to know why a freight train streaking across the Oklahoma Panhandle failed to pull into a side track and instead charged down the main line and collided head-on with another train approaching from the opposite direction.
Three Union Pacific Railroad employees remained missing after the crash. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol suggested they had died, and the National Transportation Safety Board said there was 'no survivable space' in the locomotives' cabins following the Sunday morning collision. (Permalink) Crash |
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A runner who donated part of her lung to her sister has taken the Olympic flame on board on steam train as the relay travels from York to Carlisle.
Josephine Loughran, 54, underwent surgery to give a lung lobe to her sister Sheila, who had cystic fibrosis. She carried the flame on the Scots Guardsman for the journey from York's National Railway Museum to Thirsk. A woman who rescued two drivers who crashed on a railway crossing is also among the day's 85 torchbearers.[From Mark Bartlett] (Permalink) Crash  Gleneagles: 'Great Britain V' runs through Gleneagles on 24 April behind 46115 Scots Guardsman.  Perth: It was nice to see a steam engine standing in Perth station again. 46115 Scots Guardsman at the head of the southbound 'Great Britain V' on 24 April 2012. See image [[6823 for a similar scene ...  Galashiels [1st]: Royal Scot 4-6-0 no 46115 Scots Guardsman photographed at the platform at Galashiels with a southbound train. The date is thought to be 17 July 1965 and the train is the 9.50am (SO) Edinburgh W ... |
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A driver whose van was hit on a level crossing by a train when he failed to call ahead to check if the line was clear has been jailed for five months.
Daniel Bellis, 35, from Oswestry, Shropshire, admitted endangering the safety of people on the railway. The judge at Mold Crown Court told him he gambled with lives on the crossing near Carno, Powys, on 16 February. [From Mark Bartlett] (Permalink) Crash |
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A 68-year-old woman has died of injuries in a head-on collision between two trains near the Dutch city of Amsterdam on Saturday, officials say.
Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van der Laan said 16 other people seriously injured in the crash remained in hospital. In all, 117 people were hurt in the accident, which happened near Sloterdijk, to the west of the city. (Permalink) Crash  Amsterdam Central: Wash me please! A rather dirty NS electric loco hauls some ECS out of Amsterdam Central station.  Amsterdam Central: A Plan T EMU entering Amsterdam Central on 27 February 1992.  Amsterdam Central: NS double deck commuter trains stand side by side at the platforms of Amsterdam Central station on 5 December 1997. |
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Three people died and another 13 were injured when a German regional train collided with a works engine near the town of Offenbach early on Friday.
The train, travelling from Frankfurt to Hanau, was carrying 35 passengers at the time of the accident. Police said it had run into a maintenance crane on the track (Permalink) Crash |
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MOTHERWELL players and staff had to get off their team bus yesterday when it got stuck under a bridge.
The Fir Park side had earlier drawn with Hibs at Easter Road and were returning home when the driver of their coach crashed his bus. Players were taken off the coach as the hapless driver surveyed the damage and alternative arrangements were made to ferry them home. The smash happened as the bus was making its way through Edinburgh’s Old Town. It struck a low railway bridge in New Street, which carries the main east coast railway line from nearby Waverley Station. (Permalink) Crash  Edinburgh Waverley: Trains held on New Street bridge on the eastern approach to Waverley on Sunday morning 30 April 2006. Under construction on the left is the new Edinburgh Council HQ, part of the Waverley Valley develo ... |
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Network Rail was fined £4m yesterday for safety failures that led to a train derailment which killed a pensioner and injured 86 other passengers.
The company accepted it was to blame for a 'devastating and preventable' accident. (Permalink) Crash Derailment Grayrigg Network Rail |
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It was a set of faulty points that five years ago caused a 95mph Virgin Pendolino train to come off the tracks near the village of Grayrigg on a pitch-black, rain and windswept winter's night in the bleak Cumbrian countryside.
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Two trains have collided in southern Poland, leaving 15 people dead and 50 hurt, local officials say.
The accident occurred on Saturday evening on the Warsaw-Krakow mainline at the small town of Szczekociny, according to Polish TV. Two express trains, one of which was on the wrong track, collided head-on, a senior railway official said. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the accident Poland's 'most tragic train catastrophe... in many years.' Mr Tusk arrived at the scene early on Sunday morning, with three other cabinet ministers. (Permalink) Crash |
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A train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has killed 49 people with hundreds more injured, police say.
The train slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station during the morning rush hour. 'We assume that there was some fault in the brakes', Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said. Eyewitnesses said the train was travelling fast. Dozens of people remain trapped. 'The train was full and the impact was tremendous,' a passenger identified as Ezequiel told local television (Permalink) Crash |
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Network Rail is to be prosecuted over the Cumbrian rail crash at Grayrigg in which one passenger died.
The Office for Rail Regulation (ORR) said it had started criminal proceedings for a breach of health and safety law. (Permalink) Crash Network Rail |
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Three people had a miraculous escape after their car crashed through a railway bridge on to the track below, in front of an on-coming steam train.
Two cars collided on the bridge that crossed over the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway (GWR) near the village of Southam, Gloucestershire, at around 1.30pm. One of the cars fell 20 feet onto the track below the bridge on Southam Lane and landed on its roof. The train that was travelling along the line managed to stop before hitting the car. No injuries were reported. (Permalink) Crash GWR Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway  Winchcombe: Bulleid West Country Pacific no 34007 Wadebridge passing Winchcombe in June 2007 with a Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway special from Toddington sporting the Atlantic Coast Express h ... |
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Network Rail is being sued by the son of a couple killed when their car collided with a train at a level crossing in Caithness two years ago.
Angus MacKay and his wife Margaret, both 81, from Inverness, and Mr MacKay's brother Donald, 66, of Latheron, died in the incident. The MacKays' son, Donald, said he hoped his action would highlight what he said were shortcomings in crossing safety. Network Rail said it could not comment on the legal action at this stage. The crash happened at an unmanned, gate-free level crossing in Halkirk in September 2009. (Permalink) Crash Halkirk Network Rail  Halkirk: Maintenance and testing of warning lights and audible alarm being carried out at Bridge Street open level crossing, Halkirk, on 28 August 2007. View is northeast towards Georgemas Junction over the si ... |
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A bullet train crash which killed 40 people in China in July was caused by design flaws and sloppy management, the Chinese government says.
Almost 200 people were injured in the crash near the south-eastern city of Wenzhou. 'Missteps' by 54 officials led to the disaster, the long-awaited official report says. The crash led many Chinese to accuse the government of putting development and profit before safety. (Permalink) Crash |
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The driver of a hay lorry hit by a train on a level crossing in Carmarthenshire has been arrested.
Seven people on the Milford Haven to Manchester service suffered minor injuries near Whitland at 09:50 GMT. Passengers were led to safety and shuttle buses are now running between Milford Haven and Carmarthen. Engineers are assessing the damage. British Transport Police (BTP) said a 48-year-old local man was being held on suspicion of endangering safety. (Permalink) Crash  Abergavenny: Arriva Trains 175101 southbound ex-Manchester Piccadilly arriving at Abergavenny on 27 May 2010, final destination Milford Haven.
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Badly maintained points caused a woman's death in the Grayrigg train crash, an inquest jury has ruled, and her family blamed Network Rail for the tragedy.
Margaret Masson, 84, died when a Virgin Pendolino express train travelling from London to Glasgow derailed on the west coast mainline near the Cumbrian village of Grayrigg on 23 February 2007 after passing over a 'degraded and unsafe' set of points. All eight carriages were derailed and 86 passengers and two crew were injured as the train came off the rails at 95mph, scattering carriages down an embankment. (Permalink) Crash Network Rail |
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The jury at the inquest into the death of a woman in the Grayrigg train crash has retired to consider its verdict.
Margaret Masson, 84, died after a Virgin Pendolino London to Glasgow express train derailed on the west coast main line near the village of Grayrigg in Cumbria at 8.12pm on 23 February 2007. All eight carriages of the class 390 tilting train were derailed and 86 passengers and two crew of the 105 people aboard were injured as the 300-tonne train came off the rails at 95mph, scattering carriages down an earth embankment. (Permalink) Crash |
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A train jackknifed and derailed less than two seconds after travelling over a 'degraded and unsafe' set of points, an inquest has heard.
The Virgin Pendolino London to Glasgow service left the track near Grayrigg in Cumbria in February 2007. Margaret Masson, 84, died in the crash, and a further 88 people were injured. Data collected by the train's 'black box' showed it was travelling at 92mph (148km/h) when the first two carriages began to jackknife. Mrs Masson, from Glasgow, was travelling on the train when it crashed at 20:11 GMT on 23 February 2007. She was taken by helicopter to hospital but was pronounced dead at 23:00 BST the same night. The cause of the crash has previously been blamed on a 'degraded and unsafe' set of points. (Permalink) Crash |
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A 47-year-old man has died after his car left the road and landed on a railway line in West Dunbartonshire.
The man's green Subaru Impreza left the northbound A82, near the Renton sliproad, at about 1800 BST on Sunday. (Permalink) Crash  Renton: In the absence of any spare 14th century buildings in the Vale of Leven the disused 1970s station building at Renton serves as the King Robert the Bruce Heritage centre and home of the Strathleven Art ...  Renton: The station building at Renton has not been in rail use for some years and it is fair to say that maintenance is suffering as a result. The smell of decay was evident even from the outside. View looks ... |
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TRAINS services were hit by disruption and delays after a lorry crashed into a rail bridge between Perth and Dundee. [Scotsman]
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Network Rail has been fined £3m by a court for failings over the Potters Bar train crash, in which seven people died.
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Network Rail has admitted health and safety failings over the 2002 Potters Bar crash, in which seven people died.
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