Safety probe into train death of hero dad, daughter
Investigators will probe CCTV footage and the speed of an oncoming train to determine how a father and his daughter died when a pram rolled onto the tracks.
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Years of anguish for train driver’s widow after crash
Jenny Kennedy will never forget the day her beloved, train driver husband John was killed in a derailment north of Melbourne in 2020.
Rail operators fined $525k over fatal train derailment
NSW Trains and Australian Rail Track Corporation have been sentenced in a Melbourne court after two men were killed in a 2020 train derailment.
‘Everyone deserves to arrive home’: plan for safer rail
Better technology and education are part of a new national strategy to eliminate deaths and injury at Australia's 22,000 level crossings.
Two dead after train derails in horror truck crash
Two train drivers have died after their locomotive collided with a truck at a level crossing near the South Australia-NSW border.
Driver charged over two killed in truck and train crash
Investigators have charged a truck driver over the deaths of two train drivers killed when the vehicles collided near the South Australia-NSW border.
‘Slow down’ note handed to driver before train tragedy
A Melbourne-bound train was travelling at up to 127km/h when it derailed, killing two men and injuring passengers, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says.
Pakistan train derailment death toll rises to 30
Railway officials say the death toll from a train derailment in southern Pakistan has risen to at least 30 with more fatalities possible.
Man killed as car, coal train collide at level crossing
One man has died and a second is critically injured after a car and a train collided in north Queensland when the driver swerved around a boom gate.
Rail operator charged, faces big fine over fatal crash
Queensland's railway operator will not contest charges by the national regulator over a 2021 crash that left a locomotive driver dead.