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unusual facts about passenger train



1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck

The brakes on the cars of the Federal Express, a passenger and mail train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, malfunctioned and the train crashed into the station, jumped the passenger platform, and plunged through the floor of the passenger terminal into the basement of the station.

David B. Jones Special

The David B. Jones Special was a one-time, passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois at the request of David Benton Jones.

Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is the passenger trains and service vehicles (collectively known as 'rolling stock') used on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), which serves the London Docklands area in the east of London.

Edward Entwistle

Edward Entwistle, born 24 March 1815 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, was the first driver of a passenger train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Gawler Central railway line

The line was constructed in 1857-58 to connect the Adelaide with copper resources at Kapunda and Burra, as well as to provide passenger and freight services to the new town of Gawler.

Halifax, Nova Scotia railway station

Via Rail replaced the Scotian with a former CP train, the Atlantic which was extended from its eastern terminus at Saint John to Halifax.

Merchants Despatch

MDT also entered the Intermodal freight transport business, and purchased 572 container flats (intended mainly for use in mail service on passenger trains) between 1958 and 1965.

Milwaukee Road class F7

The Milwaukee Road's class F7 comprised six (#100–#105) high-speed, streamlined 4-6-4 "Baltic" or "Hudson" type steam locomotives built by ALCO in 1937–38 to haul the Milwaukee's Hiawatha express passenger trains.

New Orleans Zephyrs

In 1985, the team name was changed to the Denver Zephyrs, after the famous passenger train.

Truro, Nova Scotia railway station

This came to an abrupt halt on 15 January 1990 after massive budget cuts to Via Rail saw rail service from Truro to Sydney, as well as to Edmundston, New Brunswick annulled, leaving Truro with only the 6 day/week Ocean service from Halifax to Montreal.

XpressWest

XpressWest (formerly known as DesertXpress) is a private venture proposal backed by a Las Vegas, Nevada hotel developer to build a privately funded high-speed rail passenger train in the Western United States to connect Palmdale and Victorville, California to Las Vegas and later to Phoenix, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colorado.

York Street railway station

Passenger service on the CP Fredericton Subdivision ended on April 28, 1962, forcing Fredericton residents to travel to Fredericton Junction to use the The Atlantic Limited service on the Saint John-Montreal main line.


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2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra

On 30 November, a mob of over 6000 protestors stopped the Deccan Queen passenger train near Ulhasnagar, asked the passengers to alight and set afire its five bogies.

Armagh rail disaster

13 die near Kisumu, Kenya, after a passenger train rolls back because of air brake failure - 15 August 2000

Baghdad Metro

The Baghdad Metro and the passenger train that runs between Baghdad and Basra, which resumed service in 2007, were the first two regular passenger services to resume in Iraq since the Iraq War.

Balloch, New Hampshire

The railroad, now operated by the New England Central Railroad, continues to feature daily trains through Balloch, including its own freight trains, as well as freight trains of Pan Am Railways and the daily Vermonter passenger train of Amtrak.

Bennett Brook Railway

8 December 1984 was the official opening of the Bennett Brook Railway, and Peter Dowling MLA (The Patron of the Organisation), with some assistance, drove the first passenger train out of Central Station.

Caio Vianna Martins

In the early hours of December 19, 1938, Martins was travelling with a group of Scouts from Belo Horizonte to São Paulo, when their passenger train collided head-on with a freight train near the city of Barbacena, resulting in many injuries and approximately 40 deaths.

Cornish Riviera Express

The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904.

Dahlerau train disaster

The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that took place on May 27, 1971 in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger train collided head-on.

Down Easter

Downeaster, an American passenger train running from Boston, Massachusetts, to Brunswick, Maine

Dumfries railway station

It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line and is managed by First ScotRail who provide nearly all passenger train services.

EMC AA

MP 7100 was built for service with the Delta Eagle passenger train, which ran between Memphis, Tennessee and Tallulah, Louisiana.

Garabit viaduct

Until 11 September 2009, only one regular passenger train per day in each direction used to pass over the viaduct - a Corail route from Clermont-Ferrand to Béziers.

GNR Stirling 4-2-2

In the anime film Detective Conan: The Phantom of the Baker Street, in which the protagonists are in a virtual reality game, the protagonists confront Jack the Ripper on the top of a runaway passenger train, which is pulled by a GNR Stirling Single Engine.

Grafton Express

The Grafton Express is an Australian passenger train operated by NSW TrainLink between Sydney and Grafton via the North Coast line.

Grdelica train bombing

An AGM-130 missile precision-guided munition released by a NATO F-15E Strike Eagle struck the centre of the bridge at the exact moment that the No. 393 passenger train, en route from Belgrade to Ristovac, was crossing the bridge.

Great Western Railway accidents

The most serious accident however, occurred on 24 December 1874, when a double-headed passenger train from Paddington to Birkenhead derailed near Kidlington just north of Oxford and 34 passengers were killed.

Green train

the Bombardier Class 172 Turbostar, a British passenger train promoted as ‘green train’.

Handyside Bridge

It carried trains from 1878 to 1968, with the last passenger train crossing on September 5, 1964 and the last goods train in May 1968 by the Stephenson Locomotive Society, when the branch was closed by the Beeching cuts.

Karanjadi train crash

At 6.10am, the Matsyagandha Express passenger train, transporting commuters between Mangalore and Mumbai, was on a section of the Konkan Railway line between Veer and Karanjadi, when the engine ran headlong into the debris of a landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains, which had collapsed part of a hillside across the track, crushing steel nets put there to prevent such a fall.

Kukri

On September 2, 2010, Bishnu Shrestha, a retired Indian Army Gorkha soldier, alone and armed only with a kukri, defeated 40 bandits who attacked a passenger train he was on in India.

Lackawanna Old Road

On June 16, 1925, a passenger train carrying German-American tourists from Chicago to Hoboken was slated to run over the Lackawanna Cut-Off, but in order to avoid freight trains on the line the special train was diverted onto the Old Road to Port Morris.

Main Western railway line, New South Wales

Lithgow is the extent of urban electric passenger train services, although the electric wires extend to the town of Bowenfels west of Lithgow.

Market Bosworth railway station

In May 2009 a passenger train (hauled by LNER Thompson Class B1 No. 61306 halted at the station for the first time in at least 10 years to allow passengers to see the progress at the station.

Mikawashima Station

The crash occurred about 350 meters east of Mikawashima Station when an Ueno-bound passenger train (train number 2000H) crashed into the wreckage of a crash between a Toride-bound passenger train (2117H) and a Mito-bound freight train (number 287) as well as a crowd of evacuating passengers from 2117H.

North Coast Mail

The North Coast Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from Sydney via the North Coast line to Grafton until October 1985.

Northern Mail

The Northern Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from Sydney to Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield and Moree from the 1870s until November 1988.

Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori

RFI is controlled by the same government group that controls Trenitalia, the incumbent provider of passenger train services in Italy.

Padua Town

Padua also lies on the train route of Kirandul to Vishakhapatnam passenger train that runs between the Indian states of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

Peat extraction on the Somerset Levels

In 1949 a British Railways passenger train from Highbridge collided with an Eclipse narrow gauge diesel locomotive crossing on the level and left the track, ending up in the Glastonbury Canal.

Pickering Valley Railroad

A torrential rainstorm had washed out a portion of the track near Kimberton, and a passenger train from Phoenixville, carrying about 130 people, including many returning from a Pennypacker family reunion, ran into the washout.

Poughkeepsie Bridge Route

The Poughkeepsie Bridge Route was a passenger train route from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts, via Baltimore, Maryland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Prospector

Transwa Prospector, a passenger train operated by Transwa which runs between Perth and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Railway accidents in Vietnam

March 12, 2005 – 2005 Phú Lộc derailment: An express passenger train on the North–South Railway derailed in central Vietnam, killing 11 people and injuring hundreds, many of which were in a serious condition after the crash.

Saarbrücken–Sarreguemines railway

A few weeks later, on 16 July 1870, the last passenger train ran from Sarreguemines, subjected to stone-throwing by the French during the lead up to the Franco-Prussian War.

Samtrak

Samtrak was a passenger train operated by the Oregon Pacific Railroad, and named after the owner of the railroad, Dick Samuels.

Southall rail crash

The crash occurred after the 10:32 Great Western Trains passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, worked by power cars 43173 + 43163 and operating with a defective Automatic Warning System (AWS), passed a red (danger) signal (SPAD), preceded by two cautionary signals, and collided with a freight train entering Southall goods yard shortly before 13:20 local time.

Southern Highlands Express

The Southern Highlands Express was an Australian passenger train operating on the Main South line in New South Wales from Sydney to Goulburn.

Taneatua Express

The Taneatua Express was an express passenger train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department that ran between Auckland and Taneatua in the Bay of Plenty, serving centres such as Tauranga and Te Puke.

Tasmanian Transport Museum

In 1979, after the cessation of passenger train services in Tasmania, the Museum purchased and moved the former New Town railway station building to the site in sections, and this was completed in 1980.

The Continental

Hook Continental, a passenger train running between London's Liverpool Street Station and Harwich Parkestone Quay

The Gippslander

The Gippslander was am Australian named passenger train operated by the Victorian Railways from Melbourne through the Gippsland region to Bairnsdale.

The Palatine

The Palatine was the name given to an express passenger train, introduced by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1938: the 10.00 from Manchester Central to London St Pancras and the return working, the 16.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central.

The Welshman

The Welshman was a named passenger train of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway that ran from London Euston Station to Holyhead with portions for Llandudno, Pwllheli and Porthmadog.

The Westlander

The Westlander is an Australian passenger train operated by Queensland Rail on the Main and Western lines between Brisbane and the outback town of Charleville.

Timken 1111

With a dynamometer car in tow, the Northern Pacific was able to drive the locomotive as fast as a sustained 88 mph (142 km/h) while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train past Willow Creek, Montana.

V line

V/Line, a not for profit regional passenger train and coach operator in Victoria, Australia.

V Train

The V/Line, a not for profit regional passenger train and coach service in Victoria, Australia

Xplorer

New South Wales Xplorer, a passenger train in Australia introduced in 1993

Zoufftgen train collision

The CFL accepted that the double-deck passenger train (class TER 2N NG), travelling from Luxembourg to Nancy, had passed a red signal with the authorisation of the head signaller at Bettembourg.