Train Derailment

After Ohio train wreck, President Joe Biden orders door-to-door checks

President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a heated political controversy. Under Biden's order, teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit homes beginning Saturday. Workers will ask how residents are doing, see what they need and connect them with appropriate resources from government and nonprofit organisations, the White House said. The walk teams are modelled on similar teams following hurricanes and other natural disasters. Biden directed employees to get to as many homes as possible by Monday. Officials said the immediate goal was to visit at least 400. The president said he currently has no plans to personally visit Ohio. Meanwhile, the controversy spread far beyond the little Ohio town. Officials in Texas and Michigan expressed concern about ...

Rajasthan train derailment: 4 passenger trains cancelled, 1 diverted

They said that nearly half a dozen trains scheduled to pass through the section have been cancelled or diverted on alternate routes

Over 50 wagons of goods train derail near Gaya; rail traffic disrupted

At least 53 wagons of a coal-laden goods train derailed near Gurpa railway station in Bihar in the early hours of Wednesday, disrupting rail traffic, officials said. The incident took place around 6.24 am between Koderma and Manpur railway stations of the Dhanbad division, East Central Railway (ECR) said in a statement. The exact cause of this is yet to be known. Railway teams have started work to restore the lines, a senior official of the ECR Zone said. Nobody was injured due to the derailment, he said. Ten trains were diverted to other routes and four were partially terminated following the incident, the statement said.

Passenger train collides with goods train in Maha's Gondia; 2 injured

Two persons sustained minor injuries after four wheels of a coach of an express train on its way from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh to Rajasthan's Jodhpur derailed in Gondia district of Maharashtra

39 trains cancelled, 58 diverted in Gujarat as rail route affected

Thirty nine trains have been cancelled and 58 others diverted in over 30 hours after a goods train derailed and blocked the route in Gujarat's Dahod district, the Western Railway said on Tuesday

Goods train derails in Gujarat, no casualty; affects rail traffic on route

Sixteen wagons of a goods train derailed in Gujarat's Dahod district on Monday blocking the route, following which 29 trains were diverted and one was cancelled so far, Western Railway officials said

17 wagons of goods train derail near Punjab's Rupnagar, no casualties

The incident took place near Gurudwara Bhattha Sahib when the train was returning from Ropar Thermal Plant after unloading coal, officials said

Bikaner-Guwahati mishap: Problem with locomotive's equipment, says min

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train accident site in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district

Toll in Bikaner-Guwahati train accident rises to 9, Rly Min to visit site

The death toll in the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train accident in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district has gone up to nine, a Northeast Frontier Railway spokesperson said on Friday

7 killed, 45 injured as Bikaner-Guwahati Express derails in Bengal

At least seven people were killed and more than 45 injured when 12 coaches of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train derailed and some overturned near Domohani in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district

5 killed, 45 injured as Bikaner-Guwahati Express train derails in Bengal

The accident occurred around 5 p.m. in an area under Alipurduar division of Northeast Frontier Railway

17 wagons of goods train derail in Naxal-hit Dantewada, no casualty

Seventeen wagons of a goods train derailed on the Kirandul-Visakhapatnam railway section in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Dantewada district on Friday, a senior police official said.

Passengers safe as 7 coaches of Bengaluru-bound train derail in Tamil Nadu

Seven coaches of a Bengaluru-bound train derailed near Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu after boulders fell on it but all the 2,000-odd passengers were safe

Goa-bound Rajdhani Express derails in Maharashtra; all passengers safe

Goa-bound Rajdhani Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin derailed inside a tunnel in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra early on Saturday, but there was no report of injury to any passenger, an official said

New Farakka Express derailment: Preliminary probe blames signalling dept

Five people died and around 30 were injured when five coaches of the New Farakka Express derailed near Rae Bareilly on October 10

Train derailments: Railway Board chief quits; Prabhu offers to resign

Air India CMD Lohani to take over as the board's chairman

Two more attempts to derail trains prevented

Cases of man-made obstructions were discovered at Malda and Dhanbad divisions

Derailment hit train services; 20 Indian Railways trains cancelled

Anand Vihar - Bhubneshwar Odisha SK Express will remain cancelled on December 30

120 killed in UP train derailment

Centre, Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh promise cash aid to relatives of deceased; relief work on

116 killed in train accident near Kanpur

Centre announces a compensation of Rs 3.5 lakh, UP govt Rs 5 lakh, and MP govt Rs 2 lakh for the kin of the deceased; 200 injured in the incident