On the morning of 1 September 1905, a train left London Liverpool Street, bound for Cromer. As it approached Witham railway station, disaster struck. Most of its 14 carriages left the tracks, sliding ...

On the warm summer night, the quiet town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, was shattered by one of Canada’s deadliest rail disasters. A runaway freight train carrying over two million gallons of crude oil ...

MADRID (AP) — A high-speed train derailment in southern Spain has left at least 39 people dead and injured more than 150, according to authorities. Rail travel in Europe is a common, relatively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emergency personnel work next to one of the trains involved in the accident, near Adamuz, in Cordoba, Spain, January 19.

A construction crane working on a high-speed rail project collapsed onto a moving passenger train in northeast Thailand on Wednesday morning, killing 29 people and injuring approximately 80 others, Al ...

Before 1846, English common law contained a striking gap: a person injured through another’s wrongdoing could generally ...

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 ...

After Years of Grief, Trial Opens Over Greek Rail Disaster That Killed College Students LARISSA, Greece (AP) — A criminal trial opened in Greece Monday over a train collision that killed 57 people, ...

France suffered its first fatal TGV accident in three decades, when at least 10 people were killed and dozens injured as one of the high-speed trains derailed during a test run. Here is a list of ...

Greece’s worst rail disaster in 2023 was due to chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators have said a day before the tragedy’s second anniversary. The ...

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 ...