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On 24 January 2009 at 2:35 AM, set G4 (now T104) was departing from Unanderra towards Wollongong and derailed due to the train passing a signal at Danger, and the catch-points derailing the train to avoid a collision with a freight train. The first 2 cars and the front bogie of the third car derailed and stopped safely 50 metres from the signal.
The Minot train derailment occurred just west of Minot, North Dakota, United States, on January 18, 2002, when a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed, spreading ammonia gas across the city, delaying rescue operations. The cause was found to be small fatigue cracks in the rails and joint bars, not detectable by the inspection routines ...
2 July 2019, Wellington – the ninth wagon of express freight Train 268 derailed near Wellington station, resulting in a 21-hour long suspension of passenger services in and out of the station. [28] 4 April 2019, Milson, Palmerston North – express freight Train 626, pulling 37 wagons loaded with logs, derailed at a set of points. [29]
The trap points also prevent any damage that may be done by a vehicle passing over points not set for traffic joining the main line. [2] In the United Kingdom, the use of trap points at siding exits is required by government legislation. [2] An unauthorised movement may be due to a runaway wagon, or may be a train passing a signal at danger.
At 2:35 on 31 May 1962, a freight train from Milan, hauled by an E626 class electric locomotive, entered Voghera station at high speed, against protection signals set to 'danger'. It then collided with the rear of a passenger train, which was stationary on Track 3, and about to depart for Genoa .
On 9 August 1951, an express passenger train was derailed at Doncaster, Yorkshire due to defective track. Fourteen people died and twelve were injured. On 17 August 1951, two electric multiple units were in a head-on collision at Newcastle Central station, Northumberland after one of them departed against a danger signal. Two people died.
The derailed train collided with stationary rail cars on an adjacent yard track and all four passenger cars and the locomotive of the passenger train derailed. The two train crew members in the locomotive cab were killed. [63] August 2 – India – Gaisal train disaster: Two express trains collided head-on, killing more than 285 people.
The train driver did not set enough hand brakes (5 on the engines, one on the caboose, and one on the boxcar) to stop the 72-car crude oil train from rolling down the slope, the train rolled down the slope and derailed in a curve at high speed. Several tank cars burst and caught fire, killing 47 people [8] 2012 Ion Luca Caragiale village, Romania