All news on the topic: Train crashes

Crash in Powys occurred on single-track section near passing loop, with one train apparently unable to stop

More than 70 people of the reported 232 passengers on board needed medical help after the train from bleak Arctic mining town Vorkuta to Black Sea resort Novorossiysk came off the rails

The horrific accident happened in a town around 60 miles northwest of Mexico City as the train was making its way towards the capital after setting off from Canada in April

It was Friday April 30 1999 - 25 years ago to this day - that racist and homophobic bomber David Copeland planted a bomb in the Admiral Duncan pub in London's Soho killing four people and injuring 70 more. Gary Fellowes survived but, remarkably, it wasn't the only time he's cheated death

A man this week appeared to joyfully wield the severed leg of a train crash victim, waving it around on the side of the road just before getting surrounded by local police

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: Barry Wallace, 13, was first knocked to the ground by a train's metal footstep at Prestwick Town Station, Ayrshire, and then hit again on the head leaving him with a shattered skull and paralysed

When the iconic trains entered service in 1976 it heralded a new era of rail travel in Britain but train drivers’ union ASLEF says a crash late last month exposed failures in the train’s design

Erling Haaland was one of the most sought-after stars in world football ahead of his move to Manchester City but Paul Pogba prevented him from joining fierce rivals Manchester United

A Chicago commuter train derailed after it ploughed into rail equipment, leaving three people in critical condition and 35 others injured. The crash is now under investigation

Two teenage best friends from Boring, Oregon were killed in a freak incident while trying to retrieve part of their car. Tributes have been paid to Brayden Fear and Kaleb Banzer

One of the trains in the Salisbury Tunnel Junction crash - which left 14 injured - was only moments away from colliding with another train in a much more serious collision, a report has found

There were seven people in the vehicle when it was hit by a train at a crossing in Hillsborough County, Florida. Five passengers, including three children, died at the scene, with two rushed to hospital. Dad Jose Hernandez later died

Jose Guadalupe Hernandez, 52, his wife Enedalia, 50, their three children - Julian, 9, Alyssa, 17, and Anaelia, 22, and friend Jakub Lopez, 17, were killed after a train hit their car on a crossing in Florida

Six are now dead after a freight train crashed into a family's SUV 'violently ejecting' them for the car. As their names are released it has been revealed that three of the dead were children.

The tragedy happened just before 8.30pm between the stations of Parets del Valles and Granollers as the group were crossing the tracks at a point 'with difficult visibility' near Barcelona, Spain

It has been reported that 19 passengers have so far been killed with 100 more injured after ten cars of a train derailed near the Sarhari railway station close to Nawabshah, Pakistan

A cop in Colorado is set to go on trial accused of putting a handcuffed woman in a car that was hit by a freight train, causing a number of injures including a traumatic brain injury

DC Fire and Rescue Services are responding to an Amtrak train after it derailed with 230 passengers onboard. One worker is being evaluated for a "minor medical condition"

New images show the grim derailment of an Amtrak train that came loose from its tracks after smashing into a Ventura County truck near Moorpark in Southern California

The train was carrying hot asphalt and sulfur when the bridge collapsed plunging train cars into the Yellowstone River spreading hazardous chemicals into the water sparking fears

Debasish Patra, 10, was left trapped under the weight of seven dead bodies in near Balasore, India, before he was miraculously rescued by his older brother from the train wreckage

Passengers who survived a tragic train crash in India on Friday night have been taken to hospital - some seriously injured - in the hope they will recover after the accident

In one of India's deadliest rail accidents in decades, nearly 300 people were killed and many more injured in the crash in the Balasore district of eastern Odisha state

Two passenger trains - including a Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express - and a goods train collided in Odisha state of India as 115 ambulances, 50 buses and 45 mobile health units worked through the night

The car's 22-year-old driver was killed along with two women who were with him in the vehicle, aged 21 and 22 in the horror crash in Germany