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The injury toll climbs from a train derailment in Pakistan that has left dozens dead

10:31pm August 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah, trapping many passengers, said a senior railway official.

Emergency personnel search for survivors after a raised subway track collapsed Monday night in Mexico City.

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Mexico City Metro Train Derails, Killing At Least 23 And Injuring Dozens

11:08am May 04, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The subway train derailment occurred on Line 12 at Olivos Station in Mexico City. Photos from the scene show two train cars dangling precariously from the elevated track.

A massive sculpture of a whale's tail keeps a metro train aloft Monday after it shot through a stop block at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. No injuries were reported.

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Saved By The Whale: Dutch Train Runs Off Elevated Tracks, Is Caught By Statue's Tail

6:10pm November 02, 2020

by Reese Oxner

An 18-year-old sculpture caught a metro train after it crushed barriers at the end of the tracks early Monday.

A Brightline train approaches a railroad crossing on Jan. 18, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In its first two years, more than 40 people have been killed by Brightline trains on tracks and at rail crossings.

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Florida's Brightline Railroad Is Nation's Deadliest After High Rate Of Track Deaths

6:41am January 29, 2020

by Greg Allen

In its first two years, 40 people have been killed on tracks by the passenger line. Florida officials are concerned, but Brightline says suicides and people using drugs make up most of the deaths.

Emergency crews work at the site of a train accident that killed at least six people Wednesday in Nyborg, Denmark. The accident took place on one of the bridges in the Storebaelt system, also known as the Great Belt link.

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Train Accident Kills At Least 6 People In Denmark

1:13pm January 02, 2019

by Bill Chappell

"Ordinary Danes on their way to work or heading home from the Christmas holidays have had their lives smashed," Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said.

The DMZ train sits at the Dorasan Station, just south of the inter-Korean border.

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South Korea Sends 1st Train In Plan To Reconnect With North

11:46am December 05, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

The two Koreas have taken another remarkable step toward linking up — by train.

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The BHP train that was derailed in Western Australia was loaded with iron ore, like this one in a photo provided by the company.

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Runaway Train Blazes Through Western Australia For More Than 50 Miles

5:32pm November 06, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The train had nobody on it. It was eventually deliberately derailed, creating a dramatic crash scene with huge lengths of crumpled, twisted metal on the desert sand next to the train track.

Dutch Railways began "Heartbeats," a program to connect strangers who had met on trains, in the 1990s. It started with messages printed out on free train magazines before the railway moved Heartbeats online in 2008.

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Reconnecting Strangers On A Train, One Tumblr Post At A Time

7:56am January 28, 2018

Dutch Railways says 1 out of 3 of its passengers frequently flirt while on the train. But what happens when strangers make a connection and don't see each other again? The railway offers some help.

An injured passenger is taken from the Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn on Wednesday after a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block.

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More Than 100 People Injured In New York Train Crash

1:38pm January 04, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

A crowded commuter train smashed into a bumper block and partly derailed as it pulled into Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal on Wednesday morning. The injuries reported so far have been largely minor.

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Amtrak Engineer Distracted By Radio Before Deadly Derailment, NTSB Says

8:56pm May 16, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The National Transportation Safety Board says the engineer of the speeding train that derailed last year, killing eight people, was distracted by radio transmissions, a source told NPR.