Train Disaster News

A VIA Rail employee climbs aboard an F40 locomotive at the train station in Ottawa on Monday, December 3, 2012.

HONG KONG : Over 60 people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.

A third notice of claim against the county was filed on behalf of the estate of a man killed in a November plane crash at the Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head.

Approximately 60 people were taken to hospitals this evening - five with critical injuries - when a New York-area commuter train derailed near Fairfield, Conn., knocking a second train coming the other way off the tracks, officials said.

Two trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut after what was described as a major derailment about an hour outside of New York City on Friday, with some 60 passengers injured in one of the region's major commuter corridors.

Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday when two trains collided on a commuter line near Fairfield, Connecticut, but there were no reports of fatalities, police and transit authorities said on Friday.

Twenty-two people were injured, four of them seriously, when two commuter trains collided in Connecticut during the Friday evening rush hour, police said.

A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in Connecticut. Police say that 20 or more people were injured, but that there were no fatalities.

Police and Norfolk Southern railroad officials are investigating a train-truck collision in Catlin early Friday afternoon, in which the truck driver managed to walk away without any major injuries.

A heart-stopping scene at a Philadelphia subway station when a stroller falls onto a set of train tracks with a baby strapped inside.

Philadelphia transit officials say an old-fashioned but vital piece of safety equipment helped avert disaster when a stroller carrying a toddler fell onto train tracks.

Sixty-two people were injured when multiple cars derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.

A Keynsham worker who suffered life changing head injuries after he was knocked off his bike riding to work has praised staff at a Bath hospital who have helped with this recovery.

Turkish-born Kennesaw State University graduate Tuce Girit, left, finds friend and fellow alumna Michelle Vickers of Kennesaw as they check out each other's bling Thursday before the 146th commencement exercise at the school's Convocation Center.

Feminist protesters burned a doll on a cross and left-wing demonstrators shouted 'pink stinks' at the Berlin opening of a life-sized Barbie house Thursday.

The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena.

Schoolgirl, 15, who was killed by train at level crossing 'was listening to music on her iPod' when she was hit at 60mph Katie Littlewood looked the wrong way down the railway tracks as a train was approaching at up to 60mph, an inquest has heard A teenage girl killed after she walked onto a railway line into the path of an oncoming train may not ... (more)

Heavy delays and disruptions impacted the entire Caltrain line for the morning commute, after a train fatally struck a pedestrian in South San Francisco this morning.

A two-carriage train overturns after hitting a car at a level crossing before a tanker full of hazardous materials smashes into a primary school.

Chinese social media lights up after a trailer for the director's Cannes competition entry appears online, revealing scenes referencing some social ills in the country.