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Brooklyn straphangers were blindsided by R train closures over the weekend — even as some were relieved to avoid the Big Apple’s violence-plagued underground. The R was suspended from Friday...
NJ Transit is reporting "up to 60-minute delays due to Amtrak signal issues at the Portal Bridge" in and out of Penn Station.
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Exacerbating the signal problems, some of the oldest block signals in the system were as much as 80 years old as of 2017, and they also broke down frequently. [23] Subway trains were also forced to slow down due to work-zone rules. [20] These rules were created by a task force, and implemented in 2007 after a series of worker deaths. [24]
On December 18, 2017, Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, United States.The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) final report said regional transit authority Sound Transit failed to take steps to mitigate a curve at the accident location, and inadequately trained the train engineer.
7 August – Sweden – A passenger train derailed between Iggesund and Hudiksvall due to the trackbed being washed out by floods, injuring three people. [174] 10 August – Switzerland – A freight train derailed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel, damaging 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of track and closing the tunnel until September 2024. [175]
The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning across the south of England lasting from 12pm today until 3am on Friday. More trains could be cancelled as Met Office issues weather warnings Skip to ...
The derailed train was Norfolk Southern train 32N, [10] operating from the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis yard in Madison, Illinois, to Norfolk Southern's Conway Yard in Conway, Pennsylvania, on the Fort Wayne Line. Aboard the 9,300-foot-long (1.76 mi; 2.8 km) train [11] were an engineer, conductor, and conductor trainee. [12]