Runaway Train

Indian Railways said Monday it had ordered an investigation after a runaway freight train loaded with gravel travelled 70 km (43 miles) without a driver.

The former Pakistan cricket team skippers were impressed with India's performance in the ongoing Cricket World Cup 2023.

A huge runaway train laden with iron ore had to be derailed remotely after speeding through the Australian outback for almost an hour.

Six wagons of a goods train in Odisha traveled for two kilometres without an engine on Saturday night. The six wagons of the train of the goods train detached from the rest of the train and then traveled without an engine.

In Karnataka, scenes from Hollywood film 'Unstoppable' played out in real life. A runaway train engine that travelled nearly 13 kilometres without a driver was brought to a halt after a dramatic chase on a bike.

A seven-year-old girl who ran away from her parents managed to take a train to Geneva airport and board a plane despite having no ticket.

Above throngs of busy commuters at a Shanghai railway station, four large billboards - some sandwiched between screens flashing train times - were lit up with the name of the head of a mid-sized industrial products maker.

Crowds packed a church in the eastern Quebec town of Lac-Megantic Sunday to remember the 47 people who were killed there a year ago when a runaway oil train derailed and exploded, sending cataclysmic fireballs that obliterated a large swath of the downtown district.

Three employees of the insolvent railway company involved in last summer's runaway oil train disaster that killed 47 people are due to appear in court Tuesday to face criminal negligence charges in the small Quebec town that was partially incinerated by exploding tanker cars.

The young boys huddled over a fire between two tracks just beyond the platforms of New Delhi railway station, oblivious to the trains rolling past. They were trying to boil some water to make tea.

The South African speedster believes that the current crop of Indian youngsters are not vulnerable to short-pitched deliveries. However, he adds that he wants to make them feel as uncomfortable as possible.

The first victim of a runaway oil train's explosive derailment in a Quebec town has been identified, more than five days since the disaster, which left behind a scorched scene so dangerous that it slowed the search for 50 people presumed dead.

The number of dead or missing after the runaway oil tanker train disaster in a small Canadian town has risen to 60, police announced on Wednesday, as the railway chairman headed to the scene.

At least five people died and 40 were missing on Sunday after a runaway train carrying crude oil exploded and destroyed the center of a small Canadian town in a disaster that raises fresh questions about shipping oil by rail.

Blackened buildings and bodies burned into charred debris are all that remain at the heart of the small Quebec town where an oil-laden runaway train derailed and exploded a day ago.

Indian Railways said Monday it had ordered an investigation after a runaway freight train loaded with gravel travelled 70 km (43 miles) without a driver.

The former Pakistan cricket team skippers were impressed with India's performance in the ongoing Cricket World Cup 2023.

A huge runaway train laden with iron ore had to be derailed remotely after speeding through the Australian outback for almost an hour.

Six wagons of a goods train in Odisha traveled for two kilometres without an engine on Saturday night. The six wagons of the train of the goods train detached from the rest of the train and then traveled without an engine.

In Karnataka, scenes from Hollywood film 'Unstoppable' played out in real life. A runaway train engine that travelled nearly 13 kilometres without a driver was brought to a halt after a dramatic chase on a bike.

A seven-year-old girl who ran away from her parents managed to take a train to Geneva airport and board a plane despite having no ticket.

Above throngs of busy commuters at a Shanghai railway station, four large billboards - some sandwiched between screens flashing train times - were lit up with the name of the head of a mid-sized industrial products maker.

Crowds packed a church in the eastern Quebec town of Lac-Megantic Sunday to remember the 47 people who were killed there a year ago when a runaway oil train derailed and exploded, sending cataclysmic fireballs that obliterated a large swath of the downtown district.

Three employees of the insolvent railway company involved in last summer's runaway oil train disaster that killed 47 people are due to appear in court Tuesday to face criminal negligence charges in the small Quebec town that was partially incinerated by exploding tanker cars.

The young boys huddled over a fire between two tracks just beyond the platforms of New Delhi railway station, oblivious to the trains rolling past. They were trying to boil some water to make tea.

The South African speedster believes that the current crop of Indian youngsters are not vulnerable to short-pitched deliveries. However, he adds that he wants to make them feel as uncomfortable as possible.

The first victim of a runaway oil train's explosive derailment in a Quebec town has been identified, more than five days since the disaster, which left behind a scorched scene so dangerous that it slowed the search for 50 people presumed dead.

The number of dead or missing after the runaway oil tanker train disaster in a small Canadian town has risen to 60, police announced on Wednesday, as the railway chairman headed to the scene.

At least five people died and 40 were missing on Sunday after a runaway train carrying crude oil exploded and destroyed the center of a small Canadian town in a disaster that raises fresh questions about shipping oil by rail.

Blackened buildings and bodies burned into charred debris are all that remain at the heart of the small Quebec town where an oil-laden runaway train derailed and exploded a day ago.