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News on Trains
Passenger train derailed near Cairo, Egypt
- Mar, 07, 2023
- General Civil Transportation Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Egypt, Qalyub
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A derailment took place on Tuesday night, when a train heading from Cairo to Menouf, a city in the Nile delta, crashed on a concrete buffer stop. More specifically, the accident took place in the...
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Freight train derailed in Ohio
- Mar, 04, 2023
- Transportation Engineering Environmental Engineering Other News
- United States, Ohio, Springfield
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 212-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday, February 4. The incident took place around 5 p.m. and involved 28 cars, which included four tankers carrying n...
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Head-on train crash in Greece
A high-speed, head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train took place in Greece late on Tuesday, which caused carriages to derail and catch on fire. The passenger train, Inter C...
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Trains collide in South Italy at 110 km/hr. Twenty-three die
On Tuesday July 12th, a serious train collision occurred in Italy. The crash was between two trains and resulted in twenty-three deaths and lots of injuries. The causes of the accident are not y...
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China Continues Extreme Investment in Africa
Worth a total of almost $5.5 billion, the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has signed two railway construction deals in Africa. CRCC is tasked with building a $3.5 billion intercity railw...
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