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A subway train derailed in Brooklyn on Friday morning in the second subway derailment in the last month, officials said.
For sheer threat to life and limb, few calamities in New York City can match a subway derailment.
National Transportation Safety Board officials began an investigation into the cause of a Chicago subway derailment on Tuesday that caused a smoky fire and sent 152 passengers to the hospital.
Until the deaths in May, Transit Authority officials said that no one had been killed in a subway derailment or collision since Aug. 7, 1938, when two were killed and 51 hurt in an IRT Lexington Avenue line crash.
B1 Findings on Subway Derailment Investigators say a rusted rail that had cracked caused the No. 5 train derailment on April 12 that stranded 1,800 riders underground for more than two hours north of 59th Street.
Subjects include Holocaust Remembrance Day, a subway derailment, a record-setting auction at Christie's, the largest public protest against the acquittal of three detectives in the Sean Bell case and the deportation trial of a New Jersey imam.
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Historically, however, many of the world's worst train accidents on sharp curves — the 1918 Malbone Street wreck in the New York City subway system, which killed at least ninety-three people (figures vary), or the Metro derailment in Valencia, Spain, in 2006, which killed forty-three — were simply caused by the trains going too fast.
A report in the Metro Briefing column yesterday about a subway car derailment on the L line misstated the location of the line's eastern terminus, the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway station.
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[Daily News] A partial derailment disrupts subway service for hundreds.
The last notable derailment of subway cars took place in February 1998 outside a Bronx train yard.
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