Sentence examples for major derailment from inspiring English sources

The crash comes almost a year after a major derailment in May 2015, in which an Amtrak train originating from Washington DC and bound for New York City derailed in Philadelphia.

Western Region based examples had hand/foot holds cut into the smoke deflectors rather than steps, to improve forward visibility after one of the class was involved in a major derailment.

Including Friday's incident, at least 26 oil trains have been involved in major fires or derailments during the past decade in the US and Canada, according to Associated Press analysis of accident records from the two countries.

Since joining the service at the age of 18, he has attended more than 4,000 calls across Hampshire, including aircraft crashes, train derailments and major fires in tower blocks.

Virgin Trains apologises for the disruption and is doing everything it can to minimise the major disruption caused by the derailment".

It will cause death and injury to passengers, and the result will be very similar to a major incident like a train derailment".

Under high axle load conditions, the recent failures in aluminothermic welds represent one of the main risks for a catastrophic derailment and a major limitation to further increases in axle loads.

Yet, as the Wall Street Journal reports, there is not enough commercial insurance coverage in the world to adequately cover the costs that would be associated with a worst-case oil train derailment in a major city like Seattle.

Rail defects are the most frequent cause of freight train derailments and a major hazard to the transportation of hazardous materials in the United States.

A number of technical incidents have affected Eurostar services over the years, but there has only been one major accident involving a service operated by Eurostar, a derailment in June 2000.

In accident after accident, in derailments and grade-crossing collisions, CSX and other major freight railroads have used Amtrak to shield themselves from tens of millions of dollars in liability, an examination by The New York Times has found.