Rail transport
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At least eight people killed in Bangkok rail crossing collision
Thai authorities say 32 others injured near Makkasan station after freight train strikes bus and fire breaks o…
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Train collision in Indonesia kills seven as rescuers work to reach survivors
Efforts continue to free two trapped passengers in wreckage after long-distance train collides with commuter t…
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Shoes and personal belongings litter Delhi train station after deadly crowd crush – video report
At least 18 people died and dozens were injured in a crowd crush at the main railway station in India's capita…
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Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country
Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a…
- Animals, Conservation, Endangered species, Global development, India, Rail transport, South and Central Asia, Wildlife
Why are so many of India’s elephants being hit by trains?
The use of AI and ‘animal flyovers’ could prevent hundreds of wild elephants dying each year as railways cut t…
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Indian train drivers in crash that killed 14 were watching cricket, minister says
Collision in Andhra Pradesh state in October took place as India played England during one-day World CupThe dr…
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Indian runaway train travels 43 miles without a driver
Inquiry ordered after 50-carriage freight train set off on its own when driver disembarked at station in Jammu…
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India: nine people dead after fire breaks out in stationary train carriage
Railway says smuggled-in gas cylinder caused blaze that burned for two hours at Madurai station in Tamil NaduN…
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Dozens die in train crash in southern Pakistan after 10 carriages derail
Thirty people reported dead and more than 90 injured after Rawalpindi-bound express overturnsA train has derai…
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Three arrested in India over train crash that killed nearly 300 people
Workers charged with culpable homicide and destruction of evidence after one of country’s deadliest rail accid…
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Brothers, breadwinners, fathers: the lives lost in India’s train disaster
Six days after the tragedy, the death toll stands at 288. Here are just a few of the victims’ storiesStretchin…
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What caused the India train crash? A visual guide to what we know
India’s deadliest train crash in more 20 years involved two passenger trains and a stationary freight trainAs …
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‘I feel so helpless’: Indians search for missing family at train crash site
Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond …
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India’s 10 worst rail disasters before the latest tragedy
In the past 20 years, there have been at least 13 train crashes that have killed more than 50 people, some cau…
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Modi has spent billions modernising India’s trains but safety is biggest need
Though the number of railway accidents has come down in the past few years, derailment remains the main causeT…