COPENHAGEN, Denmark—At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed Thursday with 55 people on board, police said. The Arctic Circle Express was on its way from Trondheim to the remote northern town of Bodoe, above the Arctic Circle, when it left the mountainside track. […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in northeast Sri Lanka, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of its tankers got derailed, authorities said. The collision happened in the town of Minneriya — about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the […]
A harrowing scene reminiscent of a Hollywood thriller unfolded on Oct. 7 when police officers saved a man from being killed by an oncoming train by pulling him off the tracks just in time. The Seattle Police Department released video footage on Tuesday capturing the rescue of a 57-year-old man who was experiencing a mental […]
A New Jersey Transit commuter train struck a chunk of a tree on the tracks Monday, leaving the train operator dead and nearly two dozen people injured. The accident occurred shortly after 6 a.m. just north of the Roebling Station in Mansfield Township, NJ Transit said in a statement. There were 42 passengers aboard the […]
PARIS—Passengers including European Parliament officials were evacuated from a train departing from the eastern French city of Strasbourg after “light smoke” emerged from the train, local authorities said Thursday. Around 20 firefighters were deployed to the busy station at 2:45 p.m. local time, according to the Bas-Rhin firefighters’ office. It added that a section of […]
A federal jury in Texas on Sept. 23 rejected voter intimidation allegations against nearly all of the President Donald Trump supporters who surrounded a Biden–Harris campaign bus on a highway days before the 2020 election. The campaign bus was traveling to Austin for an event when vehicles with Trump flags allegedly boxed it in. Six […]
LONDON—A train in Britain was canceled after a pair of squirrels boarded the service and one refused to get off, Great Western Railway (GWR) said on Wednesday. The disruption on Saturday forced the 08:54 (0754 GMT) service from Reading in southern England to be terminated before it could reach Gatwick Airport, its destination. Staff tried […]
NEW YORK—Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday when police officers shot a man threatening them with a knife, and inadvertently sprayed bullets that hit passengers, authorities said. The people struck by gunfire included two innocent bystanders, one of the officers and the man with the blade, who the police initially confronted […]
CAIRO—A train on Egypt’s northern coast crashed into traffic on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring two others, the local governor’s office said. The crash, in the city of Borg el Arab located to the west of Alexandria, was due to a truck being on the tracks when they were meant to be closed for […]
People who live near East Palestine, Ohio, can now get $25,000 apiece for any injuries they sustained after last year’s Norfolk Southern freight train derailment on top of whatever money they get for property damage as part of a $600 million class-action settlement. The lawyers who negotiated the deal have increased the estimated injury payment […]
MOSCOW—At least 140 people were injured in southern Russia on Monday when a train carrying 800 passengers smashed into a truck on a level crossing, causing eight carriages to derail, Russian Railways said. The driver of the train, which was travelling from Kazan in Tatarstan to Adler on the Black Sea, slammed on the brakes […]
More than a year after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and exploded in East Palestine, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) returned to the eastern Ohio village to discuss its investigation into the disaster and offer recommendations to prevent future calamities. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy opened the June 25 hearing by stating: […]
SANTIAGO, Chile—At least two rail workers were killed and nine others injured Thursday when a freight train collided head-on with another train on a test run just outside the capital of Chile, a rare fatal crash in the South American country. Police said they were investigating to determine the cause of the collision, which left […]
SEATTLE—BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik initially ruled last year that the railway deliberately violated the […]
Norfolk Southern has agreed to an estimated $310 million settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department more than a year after the railway company’s trains crashed, exploded, and spilled toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio last year. If the settlement is approved by a U.S. District Court judge, Norfolk Southern will pay […]
Fresh strikes by train drivers bring rail services to a standstill on some of the busiest commuter routes in the UK. The nearly two-year dispute is now the longest in the British rail industry, though there is a glimmer of hope the strikes could soon be resolved.
PITTSTOWN, N.Y.—Ten cars of a cargo train carrying plastic pellets and cooking oil derailed in upstate New York, with two ending up in a river, authorities said. The cars, part of a 94-car train operated by Berkshire & Eastern Railroad, derailed about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday in Rensselaer County, in the village of Valley Falls. No […]
LOVELAND, Colo.—The locomotive of a cargo train derailed in northern Colorado early Wednesday, spilling hundreds of gallons of diesel, authorities said. The Great Western Railway locomotive did not tip over when it went off the rails at a switch in the tracks just before 1 a.m. but a fuel tank was punctured, the Loveland Fire […]
DENVER—An Amtrak train crashed into a truck carrying milk at a northeastern Colorado rail crossing, badly injuring the engineer and sending three passengers to a hospital for treatment, authorities said. The truck driver, a 31-year-old man from Fort Wainright, Alaska, drove through the crossing, which has a stop sign, and did not yield to the […]
