Train crashes
Stonehaven train crash: three dead after derailment in Aberdeenshire
Passenger, driver and conductor killed after four carriages leave track in flood-hit area
Libby Brooks and Gwyn Topham
12, Aug, 2020 @8:18 PM
Stonehaven tragedy highlights threat to rail from climate crisis
Fatal derailment after heavy rains exposes growing danger posed by extreme weather
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
12, Aug, 2020 @7:07 PM
From showpiece to goat track: the long, dangerous decline of Sydney-to-Melbourne rail travel
Last week’s tragic derailment of an XPT passenger train was the culmination of decades of neglect
Royce Kurmelovs
25, Feb, 2020 @11:53 PM
Victoria train derailment: driver wrote of faults on line before fatal crash
John Kennedy, who was killed along with his pilot when train derailed, emailed concerns to a friend less than a month before
Melissa Davey
24, Feb, 2020 @4:14 AM
Train derailment: drivers refused to use section of track where XPT crashed, killing two
Rail union says track near Wallan in Victoria had been awaiting maintenance before Sydney to Melbourne service derailed
Calla Wahlquist and Melissa Davey
21, Feb, 2020 @2:07 AM
The Ladbroke Grove rail disaster: lessons to be learned 20 years on
Rail safety concerns are mounting again as the UK industry faces another overhaul
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
05, Oct, 2019 @12:28 PM
BHP runaway train crash: workers applied brakes to wrong train
Report finds mistake occured before train rolled away in remote north of Western Australia and travelled 268km before being remotely derailed
Lisa Martin and agencies
12, Mar, 2019 @3:07 AM
Catalonia train crash: one dead in landslide derailment
Train came off tracks between Terrassa and Manresa, towns north-west of Barcelona
Sam Jones in Madrid and agencies
20, Nov, 2018 @9:22 AM
Pedestrian deaths and environmental concerns threaten Florida's high-speed train project
Two weeks after the launch of Brightline, a ‘green’ alternative, the project has been overtaken by controversies
Richard Luscombe in Miami
28, Jan, 2018 @1:00 PM
Children killed as train and school bus collide in southern France
Collision took place at crossing about 20km west of Perpignan, with most of victims reported to be aged between 13 and 17
Kim Willsher in Paris
14, Dec, 2017 @7:10 PM
Over 100 people injured in New York commuter train derailment
A Long Island Railroad train traveling at a ‘fairly low rate of speed’ crashed into a bumper at its final stop in Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn Wednesday
Amanda Holpuch in New York
04, Jan, 2017 @4:05 PM
Several killed as Bulgarian freight train derails and explodes
At least five people dead and three more in critical condition after train carrying propylene explodes after derailment
Staff and agencies in Sofia
10, Dec, 2016 @2:31 PM
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