Sentence examples for derail about from inspiring English sources

The first two cars of the train seemed to have passed along the tracks without difficulty, but the third car was the first to derail, about 200 yards before the station.

Thirteen cars of a 112-car freightrainin derailed about eight miles north of Fort Worth on Saturday, a Union Pacific spokesman, Mark Davis, said today.

Near Syosset, N.Y., eight empty cars of a Long Island Rail Road train derailed about 4 40 p.m. after showers washed away a section of tracks.

The cars derailed about 7 40 p.m., officials said, and the rescue train pulled away, heading back to the 59th Street station, about 9 45 p.m. "This is typical of these kinds of circumstances," Mr. O'Leary said.

A similar event occurred on Oct. 21, 2009, when a PATH train from New Jersey crashed into the barricade as it arrived at the 33rd Street station near Herald Square.Also on Sunday, an out-of-service Amtrak train derailed about 12 30 p.m. in a tunnel connecting Manhattan and Queens.

MRL spokeswoman Lynda Frost said 19 cars from a westbound train derailed about 4 p.m. Thursday 10 miles west of Alberton near Fish Creek Road and Interstate 90.

A westbound train carrying no passengers derailed about 9 p.m. on Monday west of Jamaica, Queens.

The train, known as the Kalka Mail, derailed about 75 miles from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.

The 12 cars on the 39-car train traveling from Canada to Maryland derailed about 1 30 a.m.

Deaths have been relatively rare, however, with trains derailing about 30 times a year over the past decade, according to government data.

Photo: Dozens of passengers were evacuated from the Franklin Avenue Shuttle in Brooklyn yesterday after the train, which runs between the Prospect Park and Franklin Avenue stops, derailed about 3 p.m. Emergency medical workers helped get people off the train; one passenger and one firefighter were injured.