An accident on a popular Swiss tourist railway route left some 30 people slightly injured on Monday, a police spokesperson said.
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TRAIN DERAILS AT LONDON WATERLOO STATION
Passengers have been warned to avoid London Waterloo after a train derailed early this morning while pulling away from a platform.
Continue reading »EGYPT FATAL TRAIN CRASH: RAILWAY CHIEF QUITS, TRAIN CREW HELD
The head of Egypt’s railway authority, Medhat Shousha, has resigned following a train collision in Alexandria that killed at least 41 people, Transport Minister Hisham Arafat told reporters on Sunday.
Continue reading »TRAIN KNOCKS DOWN TEENAGER CHATTING ON PHONE
19-year-old lady who was chatting on the phone, oblivious to the fact that she was walking before an oncoming train, has miraculously survived the deadly encounter.
Continue reading »KANO BOUND TRAIN DERAILS IN OSOGBO
A train travelling to Kano from Lagos derailed in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, in the early hours of Saturday. It was gathered at the scene that the train got to the terminus in Osogbo around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday and continued its journey but the accident happened at about 2:30a.m. On getting to the outskirts of Osogbo the state […]
Continue reading »ONE KILLED AS TRAIN RUNS INTO TRADERS, VEHICLES IN ENUGU
Tragedy struck in Enugu, yesterday, when a train driver rammed into buses and traders at the popular Ogbete Main Market, Enugu, killing a middle-aged man known as Ikechukwu. Several people were also left with various degrees of injuries as the train got to the area without the usual blaring of horns to alert other road users.
Continue reading »TRAIN COLLIDES WITH POLICE HILUX VAN IN PORT HARCOURT
Two persons were seriously injured when a passenger train hit a Hilux van in Woji axis of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The incident had caused a lot of anxiety as residents of the area trooped out as a result of the deafening sound that resulted from the accident. The train marked 2306 had rammed into the stationary […]
Continue reading »CARGO TRAIN CRASH INTO LAFARGE TRUCK AND TOYOTA CAMRY IN OGUN
A cargo train on Friday crushed a truck belonging to Lafarge Cement and a Toyota Camry. The accident occurred at a railway crossing at Kila, a border town between Ogun and Oyo States. The train was said to have ran into the two vehicles at the level- crossing line, causing damage to them and injuring the occupants. The Lafarge truck […]
Continue reading »DEATH TOLL RISES IN ITALY TRAIN CRASH
At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, fire service officials said. Footage showed emergency services racing to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track near the town of Andria, near Bari. The chief of the firefighting service in Bari said […]
Continue reading »TRAIN DERAILS IN JAJI, KADUNA STATE
A train this afternoon was involved in an accident in Jaji, Kaduna. Information on the accident is still very sketchy. Thankfully enough, no casualty was recorded.
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