An investigation into a fire which saw passengers flee a Tyne and Wear Metro train is focussing on emergency exits.
In New Delhi, the nation's capital, public transport was partially hit with taxis and some buses off the road, but the city's metro train service wasn't affected.
Acre 121, a small live music venue that opened in 2011, is named for the historical lot (acre 121) that first delineated Columbia Heights, and now means local residents can jam to bluegrass and funk on weekends without having to hop a Metro train downtown.
Federal investigators are trying to determine what caused Friday's derailment of a northbound Metro-North train that struck Metro-North train that was headed south.
The eastbound train, headed to New Haven from Grand Central Terminal, derailed at about 6:10 p.m. just east of the Fairfield Metro station, and hit a westbound train on the opposite track, Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said, knocking several cars of that train off the rails.
This past December, a Metro-North train struck a car at a grade crossing in Redding, Conn.
Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven.
Using interviews, inspections of wreckage and reviews of maintenance data, NTSB investigators have determined that the first, eastbound Metro-North train derailed and came to a stop in the path of an approaching westbound train.
WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail
In New York City, Chinese companies have won contracts to help renovate the subway system, refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River and build a new Metro-North train platform near Yankee Stadium.
The finding by the safety board isn't a definitive determination of the cause of last week's accident, in which one Metro-North train derailed and was then sideswiped by another train, injuring more than 70 people.
WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail
The last significant train collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.
Metro-North said train service will remain suspended between South Norwalk and New Haven until further notice.
The first line of defense, in some cases, is the train engineers themselves, said Michael Doyle, general chairman of the Engineers Division of the Association of Commuter Rail Employees, which represents train operators on Metro-North.
That train struck the other train in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.
Only after the damaged train cars have been removed can Metro-North begin the work of rebuilding the damaged tracks and overhead wires.
When the government ordered railway companies to cut the number of trains in the metro area, office workers in central Tokyo rushed to train stations to get home.
Metro Rail, which is the government agency that runs the train service, has now hired Mzembe and Lefa.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
Metro-North railroad officials said they plan to restore full train service on the New Haven Line for the Wednesday morning rush, five days after a derailment and crash halted train service on a busy stretch of the Northeast Corridor.
This slight, bespectacled Metro Man says the expansion, which includes a high-speed airport train to the city center, is all under control.
Metro-North President Howard Permut predicted a "normal" rush-hour train schedule Wednesday morning.
Metro-North and state officials are still planning to repeat on Tuesday the bus and shuttle-train operation they used Monday morning to help move 30, 000 displaced commuters through southwestern Connecticut.
Some train services were delayed Wednesday, Deutsche Bahn spokesman Holger Auferkamp said, but Berlin's metro system, or S-Bahn, has not been affected.
No longer a long-distance train terminal, Grand Central serves commuters going to and from New York's northern suburbs via Metro-North Railroad.
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