"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 total of 10 men died and more than 80 people were seriously injured when ...

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 ...

Here’s some background information about major rail accidents since 1900. Notable International Rail Accidents January 1915 – Guadalajara, Mexico: More than 600 people die when a train derails into a ...

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 ...