A passenger train has derailed in southern Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring up to 100. The BBC News website looks at some of the worst rail disasters to have happened round the world ...
OCTOBER 8, 1952: More than 100 people died in Britain’s worst peacetime rail disaster on this day in 1952, after three trains crashed at Harrow and Wealdstone Station during heavy fog. The 60mph ...
A fatal train crash described as one of Britain's worst ever rail disasters is set to be memorialised 120 years on. On 27 July 1905, a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express train from Liverpool to ...
Thirty-three people have been sent to trial over a gas train explosion in Viareggio, Tuscany, in which 32 people died. Among them is Mauro Moretti, the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato, the state-run ...
Investigators have released details of what could have been Britain's worst-ever rail crash after two trains were just 44 seconds away from colliding - and was only avoided because one was late. The ...
About 1,000 people, including descendants of those who died, have attended a service to commemorate Britain's worst rail disaster. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Princess Royal were among ...
* Train driver out of intensive care, still not stable -official (Adds investigation details, train driver; paragraphs 10-12) YILAN, Taiwan, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered ...
A catastrophic train collision near Jablonov nad Turňou in Slovakia’s Košice Region left around 100 people injured, including two in critical condition. The two express trains reportedly collided head ...
Athens (AFP) – The photo of Denis, who died in Greece's worst rail disaster, is prominently displayed in front of the country's parliament, where his father has been on hunger strike for nearly two ...
The Selby train crash began with a single mistake that spiraled into one of the UK’s most shocking rail disasters. A driver ...
If the Midlander passenger train had been running on time on February 26, 1960, five siblings on board, plus many others, would not be alive today to tell their story of one of Queensland's worst rail ...
The perpetrators’ plan included a “worst-case scenario” designed to spark a “major railway disaster.” “They were, in the ...