It was a horrible twist of fate following hard on the heels of what must have felt like a monumental success. After accidentally forgetting to put on the hand brake on a train engine while in the ...

News Greater Manchester News Runaway engine went three miles down track AN unmanned runaway train hurtled along for three miles after it became uncoupled. The engine had been connected to a wagon at ...

IT was a decision that cost him his life. Because at the same time, about three miles away, engine driver Henry Kitching was beginning to sense that all was not well with his train. He was in charge ...

The phone on the desk of the Chief Railway Controller Nihal Ferdinands began to ring at around 1.45 a.m. The caller informed Ferdinands that a runaway train engine sans a driver was moving on the ...

The Indian railway authorities are investigating an incident where a freight train was able to travel some 80km without a driver. The train was pulling 53 wagons full of chip stones when it started ...

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