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The Te Huia passenger train passed a red signal (SPAD – Signal Passed At Danger) and damaged points that had been set for an AT Metro train from a converging track. It stopped in the junction fouling zone, in danger of being hit side-on by the AT Metro train, which was authorised to occupy that section of track. [2] 29 January 2023, Te Puke.
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 ...
An express passenger train derailed due to the movement of a switch blade on a set of points after its bolts had been removed and the blade had not been clamped. Seventeen people were injured. [114] [115] July 21 – Pakistan – A train crashed into a bus on a level crossing in Lodhran; 38 people were believed dead. [116]
Approximately half an hour before the accident, the signalman in charge of Wrawby Junction signal box had changed a set of points (No.89) to send a freight train into a siding, when he noticed a failure of a track circuit, which prevented him from re-setting the points to their normal position (and also meant that the signal closest to the signal box was stuck at "danger").
A Nebraska teenager has been charged with two felony counts of criminal mischief after he was accused of causing a train to derail, recording the crash and posting the video on YouTube, according ...
The recent Ohio train derailment, in which carriages from a 150-car freight liner carrying toxic chemicals crashed off the tracks in the town of East Palestine, is just one of more than a dozen ...
A derailed train car at a closed siding. Derails may be applied: where sidings meet main lines or other through tracks [2] [3] at junctions or other crossings to protect the interlocking against unauthorized movement [2] [4] temporarily at an area where crews are working on a rail line [5] [6] approaching a drawbridge, dead end, or similar ...