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Not that tragedies don’t happen on Indian railways but its a routine here.
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One of the prime figures in Britain’s 1963 “Great Train Robbery” hopes to win release from prison after a parole board hearing Thursday.
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Rail union officials have told a federal safety panel that a minimum of two people should be assigned to the cabs of all freight, passenger and commuter trains.
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Federal investigators are continuing their review of a train collision in California last year that killed 25 people.
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Federal investigators say the conductor of a freight train involved in a collision that killed 25 people tested positive for marijuana after the accident.
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A jury has awarded more than $29.5 million to a Chicago woman seriously injured in a 2005 commuter train derailment.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel feels the model of a molecule during the exhibition “Expedition Future” that she along with German Research Minister Annette Schavan, not in photo, launched in Berlin on Thursday, April 23, 2009. The exhibition is...
