"Mum took us upstairs into one of the bedrooms and said dad's been killed and we weren't going to see him again," he recalls.

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 ...

U.S. railway safety officials issued an emergency order late Friday to toughen standards for securing unattended trains carrying hazardous materials, NBC News reported. The order, issued in the wake ...

On Saturday, 28 February, around 200 people gathered at Selby Abbey to honour the ten lives lost and the many others forever changed in the Selby rail disaster, marking 25 years since one of the UK's ...

Just before six this morning, two Metrolink trains derailed in Glendale, after one hit a car left on the tracks by an intended suicide who changed his mind. At least 10 people are dead and scores are ...

A fracture in a straight section of track "occurred prior to the passage" of a high-speed train that derailed, causing last Sunday's rail disaster in which 45 people died, an initial report has found.

In 1957, heavy fog blanketed London and set the stage for one of Britain’s most devastating train crashes. When two trains collided near Lewisham, the result was catastrophic. This documentary ...