Four Southern and Gatwick Express services from London Victoria remained suspended on Monday after the Clapham Junction fire damaged signalling, with major disruption expected to last until 16:00.
A Missouri train derailment at South Stone Quarry in Cape Girardeau County followed a September 27 collision with a dump truck stopped on the tracks, seriously injuring its driver.
Canada’s safety board wants Transport Canada to improve analysis of wheel impact load detector data after a CN wheel flagged for removal failed, derailing 18 cars in Alberta in 2023.
France has now opened a BEA-TT technical investigation into the Cléon derailment, separate from the judicial inquiry already under way at the Rouen public prosecutor's office.
A leopard in railway tunnel prompted a train crew to slow down inside the Bhanwartank Tunnel on the Bilaspur-Katni railway line in Chhattisgarh. The encounter occurred on August 25, when the animal was seen moving along the tracks ahead of the locomotive.
The Newport freight train derailment occurred on 26 August 2026 at around 3:00 PM local time, blocking a major route in Melbourne’s inner west after several wagons left the track and disrupting freight movements through the area.
Newly obtained documents are providing new detail on the East Palestine vent and burn more than three years after the February 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment in Ohio. The records concern the government’s decision to carry out the controlled operation on the remaining train cars.
USA: Emergency crews responded to four Union Pacific train derailments in Texas on August 20, 2026, with initial reports indicating about 44 affected railcars and no injuries.
UK: A track geometry irregularity was visible in rear-facing CCTV from a train that passed the site at about 14:04 on Aug. 13 — nearly two hours before the Southern service derailed at the same spot at 15:54.
UK: Two 125-tonne cranes will recover three derailed Southern carriages as the Lewes–Haywards Heath railway in East Sussex remains closed until at least Aug. 26.
UK: Railway Supply previously reported the Lewes derailment as it happened; the railway between Lewes and Haywards Heath will now stay shut for at least 10 more days, and the reason comes down to where the train came off the tracks, not just how badly.
UK: Less than a day after two passengers were seriously injured when a Southern train came off the tracks near Lewes, a second train derailed in Essex — this time with no injuries reported, but enough to make Network Rail's safety chief address both incidents together in one statement.
