Sentence examples for two derailments from inspiring English sources

During an eight-day, 530-mile train journey across southeastern Congo, there were two derailments, several dozen delays, one electricity failure and an ever increasing number of people and goods packed into crammed, stinking hallways, compartments and bathrooms.

The union wants maintenance work to be stripped from private companies and handed back to publicly-owned London Underground as well as nightly inspections of track introduced following two derailments.

The decision pushed thousands of riders onto slower, older trains traveling between Boston, New York and Washington -- the Northeast Corridor -- and was another blow to the railroad, which so far this year has been through two derailments and a cash crunch so severe that it threatened to close.

And the small town of Cassleton, ND, saw two derailments in less than a year, for a total of five in the last decade.

But transit officials say that even three derailments is a small number, considering that subway trains make 7,000 trips a day, carrying more than four million people.

These included five derailments, one near-miss between a train and an employee, and two collisions "where a train struck a rolled up door".

Three derailments in six months are a cause of some concern to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, especially after years in which tens of millions of dollars in capital improvements had led to many fewer such accidents and to improvements in the breakdown rates of trains.

Since 2003, Metrolink has had four serious accidents, including three derailments, involving trains with cab cars in front.

In 2000 01, the Airport Express Train experienced three derailments with empty trains at Gardermoen; one caused by the engineer falling asleep and two by the train passing a red light.

The Mount Vernon Square accident was one of a series of five derailments involving 5000-Series cars, with four of those occurring on side tracks and not involving passengers.

In 2000 01, Flytoget experienced three derailments with empty trains at Gardermoen; one caused by the engineer falling asleep and two by the train passing a red light.