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Egyptian security officials say grieving families in the central province of Assiut have cut off roads and denied the prime minister access to the scene of a train accident that killed at least 49 kindergartners....

At least two people were killed on Thursday when a train crashed into a veterans parade float in West Texas, according to an organizer of the event.

Investigators looking into Maryland's train derailment are watching videos, studying track conditions and pouring over maintenance records.

A freight train derailed early Tuesday while crossing an overpass west of Baltimore, spilling tons of coal on top of two 19-year-old women who were sitting on the bridge and killing them, police said.

At least 13 people are dead after a train crash in India early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the ministry of railways said.

At least 125 people were injured when two passenger trains collided in Amsterdam on Saturday, April 21, 2012, national police said. "Everybody was in panic.

Chinese investigators on Wednesday attributed a deadly train crash last summer to a string of blunders, including flaws in equipment used to signal and control the trains.

A freight train loaded with ethanol crashed and exploded Friday, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of a small town in northern Illinois.

A Shanghai subway train rear-ended another Tuesday, injuring more than 210 people in the latest trouble for the rapidly expanded transportation system in China's commercial center....

After days of growing public fury over last month’s crash and the government’s reaction, Chinese authorities have enacted a virtual news blackout on the disaster.