On a May morning in 1915, operators of the West Coast mainline railway through Scotland neglected to carry out safety ...

The Big Bayou Canet train disaster remains one of the worst railway tragedies in U.S. history, claiming the lives of 47 passengers and injuring 103 others. Amtrak’s Sunset Limited train number 2, ...

Riot police try to avoid the flames from a petrol bomb outside from the parliament during a rally in central Athens, Greece to mark two years since a deadly rail disaster that has also triggered ...

Since the mid-19th century, history has recorded some terrible train crashes. Whether due to brake failures, derailments, accidental fires, or human error, a rail wreck is a traumatic and very often ...

Congress failed to pass the Railway Safety Act after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2020. Now, federal lawmakers have a new shot.

The site of the train accident near Riedlingen (Baden-Württemberg) presented a gruesome scene on Sunday evening. A regional train with four carriages had derailed, the train units were partially ...

A train driver died and 37 people were injured when a commuter train hit a wall that had collapsed onto the tracks near Barcelona – Copyright AFP Josep LAGO Spain ...

A Canadian jury on Friday cleared three railway workers of criminal negligence in one of the nation’s worst train disasters, which killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec in 2013. Former Montreal, ...

A deadly crude oil train disaster in Canada has brought renewed scrutiny to the growing use of rail to carry oil — including hundreds of thousands of barrels in Texas — and prompted worries that the ...

India’s indigenous train collision avoidance system, Kavach, is now operational on a key stretch of the Delhi-Mathura route. This adds to the Railways' ongoing efforts to improve safety across ...