Sentence examples for railway disaster from inspiring English sources

In the latter, survivors of a Victorian railway disaster have bred in London's underground system and now periodically emerge to snatch unsuspecting passengers for food.

The country's worst railway disaster took place in February 2002 when a train heading to southern Egypt caught fire, killing at least 360 people.

John Kerry is becoming more and more like William McGonagall, the "worst poet in the world" whose horror at the 1879 Tay Bridge railway disaster yielded the imperishable observation that it "will be remember'd for a very long time".

The Napier earthquake of 1931, the Tangiwai railway disaster in '53, the 1968 Wahine shipwreck, the 1979 Mount Erebus air crash: people still tell these stories, and the names hold a stony, grave power.

There is a famous scene in The Railway Children by E Nesbit, where three young children avert a railway disaster by warning an express train of a landslide on the line.

A railway disaster, similar to the recent catastrophe at Pont de Cé, occurred on the State Railway yesterday morning, when the bridge over the river Thouet, near Saumur, collapsed as a passenger train was crossing it, and the whole of the train, with the exception of one carriage, plunged into the water.

LONDON – As the death toll rose to 78, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced two separate investigations Thursday into a spectacular train derailment in northwest Spain, one of the worst railway disasters in the country's history.

Licio Gelli, one of the leaders of the secret association, P2, was convicted for his part in the 1980 Bologna railway station disaster.

Mr. Anschutz, whose fortune was built on oil and railways, has turned disaster to advantage before.

The disaster of railway privatisation is an Achilles's heel for free-market ideologues, and they know it all too well.

The act stipulating railway reconstruction from natural disaster has a so-called "deficit contingency".