カテゴリー: Rail transport
Thai authorities say 32 others injured near Makkasan station after freight train strikes bus and fire breaks out At least eight people were killed and 32 others were injured in Thailand after a freight train struck a bus at a rail crossing in Bangkok, …
Efforts continue to free two trapped passengers in wreckage after long-distance train collides with commuter train outside Jakarta, injuring 81Rescuers were racing to reach survivors on Tuesday morning outside the Indonesian capital of Jakarta after tw…
At least 18 people died and dozens were injured in a crowd crush at the main railway station in India’s capital, Delhi. The incident occurred around 8pm local time on Saturday on two platforms as passengers waited to board trains to Prayagraj city, whe…
Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a new economic and democratic powerAt 6am on 1 October 1964, two trains set off in opposite directions in a daring experiment that would…
The use of AI and ‘animal flyovers’ could prevent hundreds of wild elephants dying each year as railways cut through their habitat, say wildlife expertsLying on a mound of soft sand inside the nursery, Bani looks like a spoilt child being indulged. Two…
Collision in Andhra Pradesh state in October took place as India played England during one-day World CupThe drivers of a train that missed a signal and ploughed into another train, killing 14 people, were distracted because they were watching cricket o…
Inquiry ordered after 50-carriage freight train set off on its own when driver disembarked at station in JammuIndian Railways has ordered an investigation after a runaway freight train loaded with gravel travelled 43 miles (70km) without a driver.About…
Railway says smuggled-in gas cylinder caused blaze that burned for two hours at Madurai station in Tamil NaduNine people have died after a fire broke out in a stationary train compartment at a railway station in southern India, officials said.The blaze…
Thirty people reported dead and more than 90 injured after Rawalpindi-bound express overturnsA train has derailed in southern Pakistan, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90.Ten carriages of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, …
Workers charged with culpable homicide and destruction of evidence after one of country’s deadliest rail accidents Three men have been arrested in India over a triple-train collision that killed nearly 300 people last month, one of the worst rail accid…
Six days after the tragedy, the death toll stands at 288. Here are just a few of the victims’ storiesStretching 40,000 miles, India’s train lines are often described as the pulsing arteries of the country, carrying life, work and opportunity from the i…
India’s deadliest train crash in more 20 years involved two passenger trains and a stationary freight trainAs rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after India’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, focus turned to what might have cau…
Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond recognitionAs the Coromandel Express train left Shalimar station at 3.20pm on Friday, its carriages were packed to the rafters with migrant la…
In the past 20 years, there have been at least 13 train crashes that have killed more than 50 people, some caused deliberatelyThe train collision that has left at least 288 dead and hundreds injured is one of the deadliest accidents on India’s notoriou…
Though the number of railway accidents has come down in the past few years, derailment remains the main causeThere is no railway system quite like the Indian railways. Trains remain an essential lifeline in India, the world’s most populous country of 1…