The Great Heck rail accident was one of the worst rail disasters the UK has ever seen. This is how it happened.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ASHTABULA — Monday marked the 149th anniversary of the Ashtabula train disaster. The disaster is remembered as an an important ...

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 train driver has been killed and at least 37 people have been injured by a commuter train that derailed near Barcelona. The incident came just two days after Spain’s worst train disaster in over a ...

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 ...

Spain's railway system was under scrutiny on Wednesday after a commuter train crashed near Barcelona, just days after at least 42 people died in a collision between two high-speed trains. A train ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

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Jan 22 (Reuters) - A commuter train crashed into a construction crane in southeastern Spain on Thursday, following Sunday's deadly high-speed train collision in the southern Andalusia region that ...