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Engine derails on West Coast main line at Bletchley

The derailed freight train engine caused damage to the running tracks and overhead power lines

A freight train engine has derailed on the West Coast main line at Bletchley leaving no services running between London Euston and Milton Keynes.

There are major delays for rail passengers with London Midland, Southern and Virgin rail services all affected.

London Midland has advised passengers not to travel as all lines are blocked.

However, tickets are being accepted on Chiltern, East Midlands and First Capital Connect services.

Network Rail hopes that two of the four lines will be cleared by "early" afternoon.

Driver injured

The Freightliner engine, being operated on behalf of Virgin trains, derailed at Bletchley south junction shortly before 02:30 GMT.

The driver was the only person on board and is being treated for injuries.

The engine was not pulling any freight or carriages.

The engine is upright but blocking the line, and damage to the running tracks and overhead power lines has been reported.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch is conducting an investigation.

Robin Gisby, from Network Rail, said that although they hoped to clear two of the lines later, services would still be affected.

"It is likely that severe disruption will continue for the remainder of the day as we work to repair the more significant damage," he said.

"Unfortunately there is quite substantial damage to the tracks and overhead lines."

Engine 'on loan'

Southern services are only running between Croydon and Watford Junction, Virgin and London Midland services are not running south of Milton Keynes, but London Midland is running between Bletchley and Bedford.

Nicola Moss, from London Midland, said: "We do strongly advise passengers not to travel if at all possible.

"But anybody who can get to Bedford for First Capital Connect services or over to Wellingborough for East Midlands Trains services or west to Aylesbury for Chiltern Railway Services, can use our tickets on those trains.

"Network Rail and the freight company are working really hard to get the line clear but that is unlikely to be before lunch time."

A spokesperson from Virgin Trains said the engine was on loan to the company in order to haul some of its older trains.

Passengers are being advised to consult National Rail Enquiries if they intend to travel.

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Guwahati:  Three persons were killed and over 50 injured when a passenger train derailed after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district today.

The driver of the earth-cutting vehicle and two other persons were killed when their vehicle stranded at the level crossing at Gossainghati between Azara and Mirza was hit by the Bongaigaon-Guwahati Chilarai Passenger passenger train at 9:30 AM, railway sources said.

The collision derailed the engine and five bogies of the passenger train leaving 50 passengers injured, the sources said.

The injured passengers were rushed by local people to the Mirza Public Health Centre from where the critically injured were referred to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital and MMC Civil Hospital in Guwahati, police sources said.

Two of the dead on the earth cutting vehicle were identified as Bipul Rabha and Saloi.
The wheels of some of the derailed coaches broke and a portion of the railway tracks was damaged in the accident, the sources added.

Personnel of the Disaster Management Authority swung into action for rescue and relief operations with railway rescue vans and high officials rushing to the spot.

This is the third train accident to have taken place this year. Earlier, two people died in train collision in West Bengal on January 7. Anothe

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Rail passengers were continuing to face delays today after a freight train derailment on the main line to London.

The West Coast Main Line was partially re-opened yesterday afternoon after being closed for more than 12 hours when the freight engine derailed at Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire. Train firms affected included Virgin Trains, London Midland and Southern trains.

Two out of the four lines were re-opened at about 3.40pm yesterday with two Virgin trains running each hour between London and Manchester Piccadilly.

There were two trains per hour between London Euston and Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

A spokesman for Network Rail said the Freightliner locomotive appeared to have approached a set of points at high speed and derailed as a result. It is not yet known when repairs to the line will be completed and travellers have been warned to expect disruption into tomorrow.

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No injuries as 19 cars of freight train derail along Mississippi River in Red Wing in SE Minn.

Feb 5, 2012

RED WING, Minn. — Nineteen cars left the track when a Canadian Pacific freight train derailed along the Mississippi River in Red Wing in southeastern Minnesota.

Police say the freight train was heading north around 9:40 a.m. Sunday when the cars derailed. KARE-TV reports (http://kare11.tv/wtl4P7) all the train cars were empty and no one was injured.

A Canadian Pacific spokesperson told the station it's too early to determine the cause of the derailment. The company will investigate.

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Belgrade-Istanbul train derails; no casualties

Source: Tanjug

BULGARIA -- A passenger train traveling on the Belgrade-Instanbul line derailed early on Monday in southern Bulgaria, when the engine hit a landslide.

There are no reports of any injuries among the passengers or crew.

The governor of the Bulgarian region where the accident happened at 02:20 CET told the media that the passengers - among them "12 foreigners" - refused to be taken to a nearby settlement. The train's heating system is working, it has been reported.

The BTA news agency said that a crane "should arrive soon and put the train back on the tracks".

Bulgaria is suffering from bad weather coditions, with flooding near the border with Greece that claimed three lives, and heavy snowfall elsewhere. A border crossings between that country and Romania that was closed on Sunday is now again open, said the authorities.

Video captures Santiago subway derailment

Feb. 8 - No injuries were reported after a subway train in Santiago derails and crashes into an apartment building. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)

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link to photos of Santiago train derailment and crash

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JR Freight train derails, crashes into shelter after failing to stop at red light

A JR Freight train is seen after it crashed into the wall of a snow shelter at JR Higashi-Oiwake Station in Abira, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Feb. 16. (Mainichi)

ABIRA, Hokkaido -- A Japan Freight Railway Co. (JR Freight) train derailed and crashed into the wall of a snow shelter here after failing to stop at a red light on Feb. 16.

The crash happened at JR Higashi-Oiwake Station. Despite the red stop signal, the train continued and entered a short side track, continuing past the end over a gravel pile and hitting the wall. The engine derailed, followed by four of the 15 freight cars behind it. There were no injuries reported.

According to JR Freight and other sources, the train was signaled to stop as the schedule was off and a JR Hokkaido super-express train was coming from the opposite direction. The driver has said he tried to slow down at a yellow signal two kilometers before the station, but the train, which was moving at 95 kilometers per hour, did not respond. He says he applied the emergency brake but the train did not stop in time. JR Freight is investigating the possibility that the cold or snow reduced the brakes' effectiveness.

The Japan Transport Safety Board sent investigators to scene on Feb. 17. The Hokkaido Prefectural Police will investigate the incident as a possible case of professional negligence resulting in danger to train traffic, and intend to question the driver and others.

JR Hokkaido stopped over 40 trains due to the crash.

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Train derailment forces authorities to block roads in Bulls Gap

Around 12:30 p.m. Sunday two westbound engines and two empty coal cars came off the tracks in Bulls Gap at Main Street near the Sycamore Drive intersection. No injuries were reported. Photo courtesy of Gary Murrell.

BULLS GAP — A Norfolk Southern train derailment Sunday afternoon in downtown Bulls Gap forced authorities to block roads, cutting off a section of town adjacent to the Hamblen County line so the railroad could bring in a crane and other removal equipment.

Around 12:30 p.m. Sunday two westbound engines and two empty coal cars came off the tracks at Main Street near the Sycamore Drive intersection, tearing up major chunk of asphalt, but no injuries were reported.

Hawkins County emergency Management Agency director Gary Murrell told the Times-News that as of 4:30 p.m. an approximately three square mile section of Bulls Gap south and west of the railroad tracks was isolated from the rest of the county due to roads being blocked. Hamblen county police, fire and ambulance services were covering the cut off section of Bulls Gap until the derailed train can be removed.

Murrell said Norfolk Southern officials told him removal equipment was coming in from Middlesboro, Ky., and would arrive around 7 p.m.

Coincidentally, the train derailment occurred a stone’s throw from the Bulls Gap Railroad Museum at 139 S. Main St.

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MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR) services were affected early on Tuesday morning as a ballast wagon derailed at Vangani near Karjat.

Long-distance trains like the Mumbai-Pune Indrayani Express, Nizamuddin-Pune Express, Ahmedabad-Pune train, Mahalaxmi Express among others were delayed by nearly an hour, sources said. The incident occurred around 5.45am.

"Two wheels of the wagon derailed and it took us close to 45 minutes to set it back on tracks," said a railway official.

There was a huge rush of passengers at Kalyan station as trains heading to Karjat were affectedon the Down line was stopped completely till the wagon was brought back on the track. It also affected trains coming from Karjat and moving in the Up direction.

Among the long distance trains which were badly hit were the Nizamuddin-Pune Express via Vasai, Ahmedabad-Pune train, Indrayani (Mumbai-Pune) Express and Intercity (Mumbai-Pune) in the Down direction, and Mahalaxmi Express, Latur-CST train and Sinhagad Express in the Up direction.

CR's senior public relations officer L M Maraskolhe said the suburban train services were not affected. However, commuters who wanted to reach Ambernath, Badlapur and Karjat early morning were stranded at Kalyan station, moreover, officegoers, who had set out for work in the wee hours, had a harrowing time, said a passenger from Ambernath. Passengers claimed the incident affected the services for the next two to three hours.

The CR administration has instituted an inquiry into the incident, and will find out if track conditions were responsible for the derailment. "The occurrence of a rail fracture is not uncommon due to change of season. We will find the reason for the derailment," said a senior official.

Some of the suburban trains plying between 5.30 am and 7 am were cancelled, sources said.

Another disruption was reported in the evening as an electrical multiple unit (EMU) train developed a snag near Ambernath station and had to be terminated.

Trains plying the Kalyan-Karjat route were affected for nearly an hour, sources said.

The incident comes exactly two months after a train had derailed near CST, leading to chaos major inconvenience to passengers during the morning peak hour rushOn December 21, rail traffic was disrupted on the suburban section after a Kalyan-bound train derailed near Masjid station. The train, which had started from the CST station, was approaching the Masjid station, when the sixth bogie (from the engine) derailed. No casualty was reported.

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A train full of passengers has derailed at Adelaide railway station due to a mechanical switch failure, and authorities say they can't guarantee it won't happen again.

No one was hurt in the incident, in which half a carriage went off the rails about 8.30am (CDT). The derailment was caused by a problem with the switch, a piece of rail that moves the train from one track to another, Public Transport Services executive director Peter Doggett said.

"Sometimes the switch doesn't lock in fully, and that's what we're investigating," Mr Doggett told journalists on Wednesday.

"That could be for a range of reasons - could be for a little rock in the switch."

The train began shaking and came to a stop before it reached the platform. All passengers and crew were transferred safely to the station.

Mr Doggett said the system had alerted the driver to the switch failure, but it had appeared fine when he looked at it.

After consulting the controller, the driver moved the train forward slowly, but half of one carriage left the rails.

Mr Doggett said the transport authority had a very good inspection regime and would do all it could to prevent another derailment, but could not guarantee it.

"We will have switch failures again. We're dealing with mechanical equipment, things do go wrong," he said.

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Train derailment injures 340 in Buenos Aires: Official

AFP | Feb 22, 2012, 07.40PM IST

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Seattle Fire Department hazmat crew cleans up a diesel fuel near Pier 90.

SEATTLE -- Seattle Fire Department hazmat crews are cleaning up about 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled when a locomotive derailed near the Magnolia neighborhood early Thursday.

The derailment happened in the 3600 block of Gilman Avenue West in the Interbay area.

Fire department spokesman Kyle Moore said no train cars were attached to the locomotive and no injuries were reported.

Moore said the fuel did not spill into the water, but it did leak into a drainage system that leads to Pier 91.

SAN ANTONIO - An early morning train derailment just north of downtown has neighbors saying, 'Not again!'

Around 3:30 a.m. Thursday seven train cars on a southbound train heading to Mexico derailed near W Hollywood Ave. and N. Flores just north of downtown.

The cars were empty, and no one was injured.

However, neighbors said it could have been deadly.

"One of those cars could have gone sliding right into the side of the house," said Thomas Smith.

That's what happened less than six years ago at nearly the same spot.

In 2006, 18 train cars jumped the tracks and hit two homes.

No one was killed in that derailment, and Union Pacific determined it was caused by an engineer incorrectly applying the brakes.

Union Pacific spokesperson Raquel Espinoza-Williams said the cause of this latest derailment is unknown.

“At this point, it is too early to determine what may have caused this accident, but we have opened an investigation," she said.

Espinoza-Williams said the investigation could take days, but added that the tracks were just inspected on Tuesday.

"That's funny,” said Smith.  “If they inspected it, how did it happen?"

Having seen derailments in their neighborhood before, Smith and other neighbors said they are skeptical of Union Pacific’s explanation and worry it will happen again.

"It is going to take a life one day,” said J.J. Tapia, who lives within a hundred feet of the tracks.  “I don't care about the train. The train can be fixed, but a life you can never take back

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Interbay train workers inspect a switcher that earlier had tipped over, causing a fuel spill.

Three thousand or so gallons of spilled diesel fuel provided a scare Thursday morning, but the fuel was mostly contained in a railside ditch, officials said.

The spill occurred at about 7:50 a.m. after a locomotive traveling at less than 5 mph derailed in the Interbay train yard, BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas said. The derailed train's fuel tank struck a section of rail and ruptured.

While most of the diesel was contained in a nearby ditch, some did make it into storm drains and entered the West Point Treatment Plant, said Larry Altose, a spokesman for the state Department of Ecology.

There were concerns early in the day that the fuel might reach Elliott Bay.

But plant operators, notified of the situation, separated and contained the oil, Altose said. The plant's normal operations were not impacted.

Meanwhile, the train was re-railed by 11 a.m., Melonas said.

No one was injured in the incident, he said. Investigators did not yet know the cause of the derailment Thursday evening.

Department of Ecology officials were evaluating the effect of the spill and determining whether further cleanup in the ditch would be necessary, Altose said.

There is minimal risk to the public, he said.

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Chaos as train derails

Rail services between Preston and Crewe have been badly affected by a train derailment.

The engineeering train derailed at Winsford overnight blocking the main line between Liverpool and Crewe and Warrington and Crewe.

The closure has badly affected thousands of Liverpool supporters bound for the carling Cup final at Wembley.

Issuing an apology, Virgin Trains recommended those travelling to London consider driving to Crewe, Stafford or Stoke stations and taking the train from there.

A Virgin spokesman said: “Due to the derailment of an engineering train at Winsford overnight, the line between Liverpool and Crewe and Warrington and Crewe is blocked.

“Due to the high number of passengers intending to travel from Liverpool/Runcorn to London for the football at Wembley it is recommended that if possible they consider driving to Crewe, Stafford or Stoke stations and use the rail services from there.

“Coaches will also be provided to connect Liverpool and Crewe and Runcorn and Stafford.

“Virgin Trains apologises for the disruption and is doing everything it can to minimise the major disruption caused by the derailment.”

The Preston to Crewe route is also affected.

Passengers travelling between Liverpool Lime Street and Crewe towards London Euston have been advised to travel via Chester or Manchester Piccadilly, while those heading to the capital from Runcorn have been told to take a replacement bus service to Crewe.

Commuters travelling from Wigan North Western or Warrington Bank Quay have also been advised to travel to London via Manchester Piccadilly.

Affected passengers may use Merseyrail services between Liverpool and Chester, First TransPennine Express and Northern Rail services between Liverpool and Manchester, Arriva Trains Wales services between Chester and Crewe and CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains on any reasonable route

Ontario Train Derailment Kills Three, 45 Injured

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Heavy equipment arrived to clean up a big train derailment in Minnesota.

The accident happened in Jackson County, Minnesota near the town of Brewster around 8:00 Monday night.

Officials with Union Pacific Railroad tell us 23 cars were derailed Monday night. They say the train was from St. Paul and was heading to North Platte, Nebraska. Officials say there weren't any chemicals on board but some diesel fuel did leak from one of the refrigerated cars.

Union Pacific Railroad Spokesman Mark Davis said the heavy equipment will help replace about one thousand feet of railroad tracks. He also said heavy snow could slow down the process because crews are extra cautious during inclement weather.

Witnesses who called the newsroom Monday night said the accident was about 5 miles north of Worthington on Highway 60. Witnesses also said there was a large amount of grain spilled in the area of the accident. Officials say no one was hurt in this accident but clean up will probably take at least a day. The cause of the derailment is under investigation

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Southern Poland train crash leaves 14 dead

Two trains have collided in southern Poland, leaving 14 people dead, local officials say, and 50 hurt.

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 arrived at the scene early on Sunday morning, with three other cabinet ministers.

"This appears to be one of the most serious railway accidents in recent years," Transport Minister Slawomir Nowak told the TVN24 news channel.

Some passengers remain trapped in the wreckage, police say. Helicopter ambulances from Warsaw and Wroclaw are helping to take the injured to hospitals.

"The rescue is difficult and complicated," firefighter Jaroslaw Wojtasik told Polish television.

"The damage to the wagons is huge. We have contact with victims. We are approaching very cautiously."

Engineering works

The accident occurred at 21:15 (20:15 GMT), when a train travelling north from Przemysl to Warsaw collided with a southbound train from Warsaw to Krakow.

Scheduled engineering works were taking place on one track at Szczekociny station at the time of the accident.

The Krakow train was on the wrong track, Andrzej Pawlowski, a member of the board of the state railway company PKP, told the TV station TVN24.

Three coaches are reported to be especially damaged, and the rescue operation is focusing on finding passengers there.

The three coaches were "completely destroyed - like a concertina", one eyewitness told the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.

Another passenger estimated that his train was travelling about 120km/h (75 mph), when it started braking very sharply.

"Then we felt a powerful impact, and we were thrown about the compartment," the passenger told TVN24.

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Canadian Pacific Railway is investigating a train derailment that occurred near the community of Wolseley Saturday evening.

According to information from the RCMP and CP, emergency crews — including Indian Head RCMP, Wolseley fire crews, Grenfell EMS and CP officials — were called to the scene of a train derailment involving an eastbound Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) train at about 7:45 p.m.

A CP spokesman said on Sunday that the train had been travelling east from Moose Jaw to Winnipeg on the main line when the incident occurred near the Wolseley grain elevator. While Kevin Hrysak said CP isn’t commenting on a potential cause pending the outcome of the investigation, RCMP had reported the train experienced problems with the brakes.

Massive Train Derailment In Abbeville County (South Carolina)

The tanker carrying hazardous materials has been moved from the site of a massive train derailment in Abbeville. 28 cars derailed Thursday morning. Crews are working around the clock to remove the cars. By early afternoon Friday, only nine cars remained.

Officials tell 7 On Your Side the train car carrying methanol, a highly flammable chemical, has been moved from the crash site, and crews will be working Saturday to offload the methanol from the tanker.

No hazardous chemicals leaked during the de-railment. 50 people are still evacuated from their homes.

For the second night, the residents are staying in a hotel. Officials say CSX Railroad is paying for that hotel stay.

But it's unclear who will pay for response. CSX would not respond to our requests for that information. City, county and state officials are keeping track of expenses, and they will hand the bill over to CSX. Derrec Becker with the South Carolina Emergency Management Division says, “We have a private company involved, and they are responsible for a lot of the cost. But we're still having to foot the bill for a significant portion of this response operation.”

7 On Your Side pressed CSX to find out more about the cost of response and who will pay. The railroad company will only tell us they have no estimate and no cause of the derailment A spokesperson for the railroad company says it could take weeks to determine a cause.

Emergency officials say they do not know when the evacuated residents will be allowed to return home.

Updated: March 9, 2012, 3:30 p.m.

South Carolina Emergency Management and Abbeville leaders say 50 residents remain displaced Friday morning.

Workers will begin to offload the methanol out of the tanker this afternoon. That could take six hours.

We're told 18,000 gallons of propanediol was either offloaded from the leaking car or pumped out of the ditch where it leaked,

CSX is responsible for cost of clean-up. All government agencies tell 7 On Your Side they will hand the bill for response over to CSX. Four units from the State Transport Police have been requested to assist with response.

Posted: March 8, 2012

Crews are on the scene working around the clock to clean up a chemical spill following a Thursday morning train derailment in Abbeville.

Nearby homes were evacuated after more than two dozen CSX train cars derailed around 5 a.m. at Redd and Hagler Streets, near Long Branch Street.

The evacuation has since been lifted for most and residents have been allowed to return to their homes, but are asked to stay indoors until further notice.  The only residents not allowed back in include Redd and McBride streets, and Shop Hill Drive.

They are being put up at a Greenwood hotel.

Abbeville Fire Chief Mason Speers tells 7 On Your Side one of the derailed cars is leaking propanediol, a chemical used to make antifreeze for recreational vehicles.

The cause of the derailment has not yet been released. 

Four cars leave tracks after train derails in southeast Calgary

FIVE significant train derailments in the past 3 days -

Train Derailment Near Spring Grove, Pennsylvania (March 30)

Train Derailment In Jessup, Maryland (March 30)


Train Carrying 265 Passengers Derails in North Kingstown, Rhode Island (March 29)

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Train Derailment In Noble County, Indiana (March 29)


Train Derailment in Vernon, British Columbia (March 28)

Major unexplained, head-on train crash in The Netherlands.  Remember when train crashes were rare and generally explained?  Yes, that was before Planet X arrived in the inner solar system.

Trains crash head-on in Amsterdam; nearly 125 reported injured

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Rescue workers evacuate injured passengers at the scene of a train collision near Amsterdam on Saturday.

AMSTERDAM -- Almost 125 people were injured, many seriously, when two Dutch commuter trains crashed head-on in Amsterdam on Saturday [April 21, 2012], police said.

There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but of those injured, 13 suffered major injuries while 43 or 44 were badly injured, a spokesman said. About 70 suffered minor injuries.

A trauma helicopter was used to bring the injured to hospital, a spokesman for railways group NS said.

The trains did not serve Schiphol international airport, the NS spokesman added, but the accident disrupted airport train service.

Some people were lifted from the wreckage by cranes while others were led away from the crash site in protective wraps to dozens of waiting ambulances, while police cars and fire trucks stood by.

"We heard a loud bang. I went outside and saw people on the street in panic," a woman at the scene told broadcaster AT5.  "We then saw what had happened. Quite quickly there were emergency services at the scene. It was managed well. Some people had head wounds, others were limping."...  http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/21/11327272-trains-cra...

Not a crash as such but certainly could have caused one. More to this than meets the eye I suspect.

Tube fears: London underground tunnel 'collapses' on Bakerloo line

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Train Derailed by Landslide (Scotland, April 27)

Two people were rushed to hospital yesterday after a train was derailed by a landslide thought to have been caused by heavy rainfall.

All 17 passengers on board the two-carriage train were evacuated after it came off the tracks near Clarborough Tunnel in West Portal, Retford, in Nottinghamshire, just after noon.

Two of the passengers, and the train driver, received minor injuries when the train was struck by debris from the landslide and were taken to hospital.

The rest were taken by taxi to nearby stations to continue their journeys.

A BTP spokesman said it is thought the landslide was caused by the large amount of rain that has showered the county.

Train Derails Near Red Deer, Alberta (April 21)

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating the derailment of 10 freight cars, about 30 kilometres south of Red Deer, Alta., early this morning.

Three of the cars jacknifed at around 1 a.m. MT and came into contact with a second freight train next to the main track at Campaign Station, John Cottreau, manager of TSB media relations, told CBC News.

Cottreau said there were no injuries, and no dangerous goods were involved in the accident, which happened on the Red Deer subdivision, a rail line between Calgary and Red Deer.

He said some of the cars contained residue of glycol. Cottreau could not provide further details, but said the substance is not classified as a dangerous good under the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act.

The cause of the derailment is not known. A TSB investigator has been sent to the scene.

CANOE – Residents of this small community are used to rumbling of trains only 10 metres from their homes, but what they heard in the darkness of Monday morning was something else.

"There was a loud bang," said Brian Mortensen, who lives about three houses back from the CP Rail tracks.

"At the same time you hear screeching metal and twisting up."

Only metres away from quaint homes that line Shuswap Lake just east of Salmon Arm were 11 rail cars, most of them dumping their load of coal on the grass and on 75 Avenue Northeast in Canoe.

The black material was tracked up and down the road by emergency and clean up vehicles.

CP Rail spokesman Kevin Hrysak said westbound coal train derailed at 5:30 a.m. Monday. Locomotives remained on the track and there were no injuries.

"This happened at the tail end of the train."

Eleven cars left the tracks, eight of them spewing coal on and around the rail line. One of the trains hit a rail storage shed, which was completely taken apart by crews with heavy machinery within a few hours. Rail cars were smashed and twisted.

The train hit a fire hydrant and crews were on hand to restore water service to residents. That was expected by 4 p.m. Monday.

Janice Ellis and Wes Carlson, who live only 10 metres from the tracks, where they sandwiched between the trains and lake, said they saw CP Rail workers check a section of track immediately in front of their house frequently during the past month.

"They were there every day," Carlson said.

They checked it out themselves several days ago and saw a hockey puck-sized piece of steel missing from one track. They wondered if that caused the accident.

Hrysak said CP Rail won't speculate on the cause, which will be investigated internally as well as by regulatory and safety agencies.

CP said the derailment caused only minimal delays on lines, as the rail company was co-operating with CN Rail to use alternative routes.

"I don't think we'll see any trains for four or five days," Carlson, surveying the trackside wreckage.

Another neighbour, Eko Dance, said he was awoken by a tremendous "bang," which he immediately knew was a train that left the tracks.

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30 freight train cars derail 

Authorities in north-central  Illinois say they're investigating the possibility that high winds caused the freight train to derail, damaging about 30  rail cars.

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Passenger Train Derails Near Miami Airport (May 13) -

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Passengers on board a train that connects to Miami International Airport had to exit on the track after three cars derailed.

A MIA Mover train derailed while on its way from the terminal to a car rental center at Miami International Airport Sunday morning. In all, two cars went off the tracks with 12 passengers on board. Two passengers suffered minor injuries

Monday morning the MIA Mover remained out of service.

On Sunday, authorities responded to the scene and evacuated all of the passengers on board. A 7News viewer sent in a photo of a mother and her children being helped out of a car by a police officer.

Two passengers suffered minor injuries as the cars tilted to one side.

The derailment caused delays for some airport passengers who wanted to return rental cars, forcing them to miss their flights. "The entrance into this area was closed down, so you could not return a car," said Alex Saavedra, a passenger who missed his flight. "So we kept riding around, looping, looping around. So I call them, and I said, 'If this continues, how much longer? Do you have a contingency plan?' He wouldn't answer me. He went around and around and then he hung up on me."

The airport bused passengers between the rental center and the terminal, but that resulted in long lines and backaches for travelers. "The problem is more lifting, carrying and dragging the bags," said Fulvia Baldera, who is taking the bus. "This way, we could have gone straight with the bags to the gate."

Airport Officials believe the cause of the derailment was due to a guide wheel issue. "I have been told that there was a guide wheel that came off, and that's the reason that the train tilted to one side," said Marc Henderson, a spokesperson for Miami International Airport.

Crews brought in a crane and worked for hours before managing to remove one of the cars off of the track. It was placed on a flatbed truck and taken away for repairs.

The MIA Mover was seen back up and running by 6 p.m., Monday.

No injuries after Amtrak train from Chicago derails near downtown St. Louis

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Pan Am Railways is investigating a train derailment in Maine that damaged about 200 feet of track and sent two tanker cars into the Penobscot River.

Four train cars derailed about 7 p.m. Friday along a stretch of Pan Am Railways track that hugs the river in Bucksport. The 31-car train was bringing a delivery to the Verso Paper mill in Bucksport at the time.

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A portion of Pemiscot County Road 208 was shut down Thursday due to a train derailment, according to the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Department. 

Andy Williams with Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) says 29 cars of a southbound train with 135 cars derailed around 3 a.m. Thursday.

The train was carrying coal. Three trains have been delayed and rerouted. Williams says traffic will be rerouted until the crash is cleaned up.

Trains Collide in Oklahoma Without Explanation, 3 Missing in Fireball Explosion (June 24) -

Two freight trains collided head-on and exploded into flames on Sunday in Oklahoma, sending billowing black smoke into the air and leaving three Union Pacific employees missing and possibly dead, authorities said.

There was no explanation yet on why the two trains were traveling toward one another on the same track about a mile (1.6 km) east of the panhandle town of Goodwell, in an unpopulated area near the Texas state line.

About 50 volunteer firefighters from five nearby towns had been fighting the fire, which engulfed three locomotives and about 10 rail-cars, since the morning collision but had not been able to extinguish the flames by late afternoon.

“The diesel fuel in those engines just doesn’t want to go out, and the rail cars are all tightly packed,” said Harold Tyson, emergency management director of Texas County, Oklahoma.

One Union Pacific employee escaped injury but three others were missing and possibly dead, Tyson said. A Union Pacific spokeswoman confirmed three crew were reported missing.

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Saudi city passenger train derailment, passengers hurt

Union Pacific coal train derails near Junction City

A Union Pacific coal train, on a run from Colorado to Memphis, TN has derailed near Junction City, KS. Around 5PM Wednesday, 21 coal cars of the 105 car train left the tracks, and some tipped over on their sides. There were no injuries.

Union Pacific Crews will work through the night to clear the tracks and get them open again. Union Pacific Spokesperson Mark Davis estimates that the tracks might be clear and open again in 24 hours.

Mr. Davis could not tell Kansas First News if the coal cars were new or older models. The age of the cars makes a difference in how much coal each car can carry. The loads run anywhere from 75 tons to 100 tons for each coal car.

Mr. Davis also told Kansas First News that the coal on the ground is now called "Dirty Coal" and can not be delivered to an electric company. That coal is piled up on the side of the tracks and a contractor comes in to collect it. Dirty Coal would then be taken and sold to some kind of foundry whose requirements do not include Clean Coal.

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Rail chaos as derailed freight train blocks line in West Highlands after landslide

• 24-wagon train came off tracks between Corrour and Tulloch
• Driver 'badly shaken' but there were no other injuries
• Sleeper from Fort William to London Euston cancelled
  
• Network Rail: It is not known when services will resume
  

By Nick Enoch

PUBLISHED: 17:57 GMT, 29 June 2012 | UPDATED: 18:23 GMT, 29 June 2012

A landslide has caused a freight train to derail, blocking the West Highland railway line, following fierce storms and torrential rain.

The 24-wagon train came off the tracks between Corrour and Tulloch just after 7pm yesterday.

A spokeswoman for British Transport Police said the driver, who was winched to safety and taken to hospital, was badly shaken by the incident but was not injured. No one else was hurt.

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Rail services in Scotland have been disrupted after a freight train derailed in the West Highlands last night following a landslide

The driver, who was shaken up but not hurt, had to be winched to safety before being taken to hospital after the incident between Tulloch and Currour

ScotRail's Caledonian sleeper service from Fort William to London Euston, which was due to run overnight, has been cancelled.

The service will remain at Fort William to provide accommodation for passengers. Trains between Crianlarich and Mallaig are also suspended.

Network Rail said the remote location would make it difficult to recover the derailed train and it is not known when services will resume.

Rail services have also been affected on both of the main lines in and out of Scotland because of the weather.

East Coast Trains said it had cancelled all services between Newcastle and Edinburgh following floods in Cumbria and near Newcastle and a landslip near Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Eastbound and westbound traffic to and from Santa Fe Way has been shut down between Renfro and Kratzmeyer roads due to a train derailment.

The California Highway Patrol is advising people needing to use Santa Fe Way to get to Shafter to take Rosedale Highway to Highway 43.

Firefighters said the preliminary investigation points to a brake line failure, allowing one segment of the cargo train to buckle up onto segments in front.

No one was injured but cornmeal spilled at the crash point.

Amtrak uses the track for travel to and from Bakersfield. As of Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman said it would affect four trains.

Amtrak train 703 will originate in Wasco, with passengers being bussed from Bakersfield to Wasco.

Trains 716, 718 and 704 will terminate at Wasco and passengers will be bussed from Wasco to Bakersfield.

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Crews work on the railroad tracks near Broadview on Monday morning after two locomotives and a rail car derailed just outside of town Sunday evening.

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Train Derails, Hazmat Called To Scene

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hazmat crews are on the scene of a fire that started when a train with several tankers derailed in north Columbus.

According to Columbus Police, the tankers were possibly carrying sulfur, although that has not been confirmed. The train derailed on the tracks near North Grant Avenue and East 11th Avenue, but it's not clear what caused the train to go off the tracks.

Several roads in the area are closed.

Columbus police and fire remain on scene, and residents in the area are being asked to evacuate.

There are no reported injuries.

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Train carrying logs derails north of Talbot; no one injured

Clean-up is expected to take until Friday

TALBOT -- A northbound Portland & Western Railroad train carrying logs derailed Wednesday afternoon at a crossing on Marlatt Road just north of Talbot.

Jefferson Rural Fire Protection District  was dispatched at 5:02 p.m. to respond to the incident after neighbors noticed the accident. They discovered the road completely blocked by spilled logs near the 1300 block of Marlatt Road

A total of eight cars derailed, with several of them completely overturning onto the road and along the track.

There were only two people on the train -- the conductor and the engineer -- and neither were hurt. No cars were stopped at the crossing at the time of the accident, so no other injuries have been reported.

Crews were waiting for nearby power lines to be shut down so they could begin the clean-up, which is expected to take until at least Friday.

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Trains collide and derail in Akron

AKRON, Ohio - Crews are cleaning up a train derailment in downtown Akron. The force of the collision pushed three train cars into a nearby parking lot that serves Quaker Square.

According to Akron police, one CSX train rear-ended another near the intersections of Broadway and Mill. It happened around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.

One train was stationary. The other was traveling at around 20 miles per hour at the time.

No vehicle traffic intersections are affected by the derailment. A section of the parking lot at Quaker Square will be closed until the train cars can be removed from the parking lot.

Both trains were empty.

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Goods train derails in Bihar, New Delhi-Kolkata route blocked

July 13, 2012 08:54 IST

Mughalsarai: A goods train carrying coal jumped off the track near here tonight, disrupting movement of trains, including Rajdhani Express, on the busy route between New Delhi and Howrah.

Twenty six wagons of the train derailed at a place between Bhagua and Durgawati stations at around 2115 hours but there was no casualty or injury to drivers or guard of the train, Additional Divisional Railway Manager of Mughalsarai Ramesh Chandra said.

The goods train was coming from Dhanbad to Mughalsarai junction.

As the derailed wagons fell on both up and down tracks, the movement of trains on routes between New Delhi and Howrah and New Delhi and Sealdah was severely affected.

Rajdhani Express trains from Howrah and Sealdah, which pass through the area at night, have been diverted via Patna and Gaya, Chandra said.

Trains going from New Delhi to Howrah, Sealdah and Puri have also been asked to take Patna-Gaya routes.

A relief train has been sent to the accident spot from Mughalsarai.

Chandra said efforts are on to clear at least one track so that train movement can be partially resume.

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Gazipur train derailment kills one

A youth was killed and at least 20 people including a driver were injured as the engine along with two compartments of a train derailed and plunged into a ditch in Gazipur Sadar upazila on Friday morning.

Railway authorities, witnesses and police said the accident occurred around 9:30pm when the compartments of Sundarban Express from Dhaka veered off the track near the outer signal of Gazipur railway station in Dhirasram area.

Ruhul Amin Helal, 28, of Pabna, died on the spot, reports a correspondent from Gazipur.

Gazipur police, railway police and Gazipur fire brigade and civil defence members rushed to the spot and rescued the victims.

Of the injured, Mojibur Rahman and Indrajit Kuman Sarkar, driver and helper of the train, and passengers Lipi Begum, Asma Aktar, Saiful Islam and Arafat Hossain were admitted to Gazipur Sadar Hospital and different local clinics.

Around 500 metres rail tracks were damaged due to the derailment.

Rail communications on the Dhaka-Mymensingh, Dhaka-Rajshahi and Dhaka-Khulna routes remained suspended for at least six hours due to the accident.

Ziauddin Sardar, station officer of Joydevpur railway station, said a relief train from Dhaka after a hectic effort managed to drag the derailed engine and compartments from the tracks at around 2:45pm.

Communications Minister Obaidul Kader visited the spot soon after the incident.

The minister formed two separate four-member probe committees to asking them to submit their reports within four and seven days respectively.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Crews were working to re-open the line Sunday night (7/15), following a train derailment in Jefferson County.

Union Pacific officials say it happened around 11:45 a.m., near Old Highway 24 and Thompsonville Road. They say the train with 135 cars loaded with coal, was en route from Wyoming to Kentucky. Seven cars derailed.

No injuries were reported. Union Pacific crews were still working to clear and open the line Sunday night.

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Oil worth Tk 53 lakh spills on ground as train derails in Chandpur

Oil worth about Tk 53.46 lakh of the state-owned Jamuna Oil Company Ltd spilled on ground near Chitoshi Railway Station in Chandpur as four tankers of an oil-laden train derailed on Sunday.

Nearly 90 thousand litres of oil spilled on ground as the Chandpur-bound train with 28 oil tankers coming from Chittagong skidded off the track around 5:10pm on Chandpur-Laksham route, report our Chandpur correspondent.

Badrul Alam, deputy manager of Jamuna Oil Company, informed that 17,500 litre of octane, 16,800 litre of kerosene and 46,500 litre of diesel have been spilled on the ground from the four tankers.

The company will investigate into the matter, he added.

Meanwhile, local people with bottles, pots and buckets rushed to the scene to collect oil since Monday morning.

There was no report of casualties in the accident.

Train services resumed at 4:40pm between Chandpur to Laksham and Chandpur to Chittagong and Sylhet after a 24-hour brake.

Tapon Kumar Mitra, station master of Chitoshi Railway Station, informed that rescue trains reached the spot and started operation at around 7:00pm Sunday to salvage all the derailed carriages.

Comilla region railways Assistant Engineer Liyakat Ali told The Daily Star, a 4-member committee led by railways Chittagong Divisional Transport Officer Jakir Hossain has been formed to investigate into the accident.

'Deaths' in Egypt train crash : 17 Jul 2012 16:17

Passenger train derails and catches fire in a suburb of Cairo, leaving many dead, a security source said.

An Egyptian passenger train has derailed and caught fire in a suburb of Cairo, security and medical sources told the Reuters news agency.

There were reports of several deaths and dozens of people injured in the accident that took place in the suburb of El-Badrasheen.

Further details were not immediately available.

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