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Train crashes

June 2024

  • Emergency personnel at work near to a crashed bus by a railway line outside Nove Zamky, Slovakia

    Collision between train and bus in Slovakia causes multiple deaths

    At least six dead in crash at railway crossing near Nové Zámky, which involved Prague to Budapest service
  • An aerial view of piled-up train cars, with a fire raging in the middle of them and sending up plumes of black smoke, above farmland and woods.

    Norfolk Southern wrongly burned chemicals after Ohio train derailment, agency says

    National Transportation Safety Board faults railroad company and contractors with unnecessary pollution
  • Firefighters at the scene of a train crash in the city of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Four people were killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train.

    Four killed and dozens injured after two trains collide head-on in Czech Republic

    Passenger train was en route to Ukraine and carrying more than 300 people when it hit a freight train in city of Pardubice, officials say

February 2024

  • Protests break out in Athens on anniversary of deadly train crash – video

  • A demonstrator holds a placard saying: 'One year after ... 57 souls are seeking justice' during a rally in Athens.

    Strikes and protests bring Greece to halt on anniversary of deadly train crash

January 2024

  • Train crashes into lorry in Czech Republic – video report

    A train crash in eastern Czech Republic has left at least one person dead

December 2023

  • The snow covered Forbidden City is seen from a hilltop pavilion in Beijing

    Beijing rush-hour metro collision leaves more than 100 people with fractures

    The rear-end collision happened in the Chinese capital, which has been hit by snow storms in recent days

November 2023

  • A locomotive in front of an upended tanker car with a CSX employee walking by.

    Derailed train sparks molten sulphur fire in Kentucky

    State declares emergency and town of Livingston evacuated, to be fed Thanksgiving dinner by CVX rail company

September 2023

  • A photo from social media shows the Flying Scotsman after it was involved in a ‘slow speed’ crash with another heritage train hours before visitors were due to board it

    Flying Scotsman involved in ‘slow speed’ crash in Scottish Highlands

  • The scene of the derailment

    Network Rail fined £6.7m over fatal Stonehaven crash

August 2023

  • Workers examining the wreckage after the August 2020 crash.

    Network Rail faces prosecution over fatal 2020 crash near Stonehaven

  • The first train comes out of the tunnel's North portal on the opening day of the Gotthard rail tunnel, at the North portal near Erstfeld, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. The construction of the 57 kilometer long tunnel began in 1999, the breakthrough was in 2010. After the official opening on June 1, the commercial operation will begin in December 2016. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

    Gotthard rail tunnel, world’s longest, closes for months after Swiss derailment

  • Train carriages after the derailment in Wallan North, Victoria, in February 2020

    Passenger train was 100km/h over speed limit before deadly crash north of Melbourne, report finds

  • Derailed train carriages

    Dozens die in train crash in southern Pakistan after 10 carriages derail

July 2023

  • An Aurizon train which crashed into an excavator left at the side of the track at Fairfield Station on Saturday night.

    ‘A bit disturbing’: investigations launched after freight train collides with excavator in Brisbane

  • Railway workers help to restore services at the accident site of a three-train collision in India.

    Three arrested in India over train crash that killed nearly 300 people

June 2023

  • Railway Protection Force personnel pay tribute to the victims of the tragedy.

    Brothers, breadwinners, fathers: the lives lost in India’s train disaster

  • Emergency workers at the site of the three-train collision about 125 miles from Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha

    Indian train crash: police open criminal negligence case

  • Diggers remove damaged coaches following Friday’s India train crash in the state of Odisha

    What caused the India train crash? A visual guide to what we know

  • A drone view shows diggers removing damaged coaches following Friday’s train crash in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

    India train disaster: signal fault identified as cause, says minister

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