Train Disaster News

GHAZIABAD: Five railway employees working on tracks in this town adjacent to the national capital were killed Saturday after being run over by two trains including the Dehradun-Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express, an official said.

A wreck in Effingham County between a truck and train closed part of Ebenezer Road Friday.

Two pedestrians were killed after being hit by a freight train in Fullerton on Wednesday night, according to Fullerton police, who are continuing their investigation today.

Two people were killed Friday on Caltrain tracks, within hours of each other in separate accidents in San Jose and Redwood City.

Train service from some northern suburbs into Philadelphia was suspended Thursday morning when a track inspector was struck and killed along the Regional Rail tracks.

A mother and two children were involved in a serious crash in Seminole County Friday morning.

Several cars on a Union Pacific train derailed Thursday morning. A little before 6:30 a.m., a train doing "switching operations," or attaching and detaching cars to the train, derailed near 1700 South and 500 West.

Claremont police on Wednesday afternoon are still unsure what caused an elderly woman to step out on the tracks in front of a commuter train.

Police say a 4-year-old boy who was hit by a train in northwest Atlanta has been upgraded from critical to stable condition.

A father and son described by authorities as train enthusiasts have been struck and killed by a freight train in Fullerton.

The deaths of five British soldiers gunned down by an Afghan policeman as they made tea after a patrol has shaken public support for the war in Afghanistan, intensifying debate about the human cost of the conflict and increasing calls for a pullout.

Hundreds of commuters were stranded at a regional rail station Thursday after service was suspended when a worker was struck and killed on the tracks, creating further havoc on the system already crippled by a transit strike.

Boone County Sheriffs are in the scene of accident involving a semi truck and a train Wednesday afternoon.

Two pilots on a training mission ejected safely from a military airplane that crash-landed at the Midland International Airport.

Authorities say two apparently homeless men were killed by an Amtrak train in unincorporated Cook County near the western Chicago suburb of Stickney.

Stroller had gotten caught in doors of departing train, mother says; 22-month-old suffers only minor injuries The Morse "L" station on the day after a 22-month-old girl was hurled from a stroller that had gotten caught in an exiting train, her mother said.

KARACHI: Eighteen people on-board the Karachi-bound Allama Iqbal Express died and over 40 others sustained injuries when it collided with a goods train near Jumma Goth, Landhi, on Tuesday afternoon, rescuers and Railways officials said.

November 4, 2009 Visionmp.com news service At least two people were injured as twelve coaches of Bangalore-bound Gandhidham Express derailed at Bhiwandi in neighbouring Thane district early on Wednesday.

At least 12 passengers sustained minor injuries when 11 coaches of the Gandhidham-Bengaluru Express derailed near Dombivili on Wednesday, a railway official said.

Many women and children have been killed in a train collision near the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.