This past December, a Metro-North train struck a car at a grade crossing in Redding, Conn.
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.
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.
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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.
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Metro-North said train service will remain suspended between South Norwalk and New Haven until further notice.
One Chinese newspaper said there had been 20, 000 job losses in Dandong, a border town through which Chinese tourists usually pass on their way to North Korea by train.
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The last significant train collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.
Roberto, from El Salvador, makes the train ride north sound like merely a long commute.
One great journey is to the hills outside of Yonezawa, in Yamagata prefecture, four hours north of Tokyo by train.
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Christopher Knafelc, 32, was waiting for a train in north Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon when he saw a man fall on the tracks.
Born in the Gold Coast, now Ghana, Arthur moved to north east England to train as a Methodist preacher in Darlington before moving to professional football.
Displacing domestic flights and enabling travellers from Paris and Brussels to reach the north of England by train would mean 66, 000 fewer flights a year from Heathrow, removing much of the justification for a third runway at that crowded airport.
Back on the train and continuing north, at Prado station is the Iglesia Los Doce Apostoles (Church of the Twelve Apostles), and moments later just after Hospital station on the right is the Cementerio de San Pedro, containing a remarkable number of extravagant tombstones, sepulchral chapels and mausoleums.
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.
Amtrak has started suspending passenger train services across the north-eastern US and air travel has been badly hit, with some 6, 800 flights cancelled.
There have been train cancellations between Blackpool North and Preston because of a landslide at Weeton, on the Wigan Wallgate-to-Southport line and the Blackburn-to-Clitheroe lines.
Amtrak has suspended passenger train services across the north-east.
In the meantime, train services from the south are terminating at Lancaster and Preston, while train services from the north are terminating at Carlisle, and there is a replacement bus service between the two.
The week of programming kicks off with a special travelogue documentary Eye on Russia: Moving Forward where CNN's Moscow-based Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance rides the train from the Arctic north of Murmansk down to the southern climes of Sochi by way of St Petersburg and Moscow, to offer a diverse range of reports.
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Tuesday's strike blighted the journey of thousands of passengers after First North Western was forced to cancel all train services.
An RNLI lifeguard manager from north Devon is flying to Africa to train volunteers in Senegal to set up a dedicated lifeguard service.
Repair work on an ageing railway bridge in North Yorkshire has been postponed to keep train services running following a landslip on another line.
An assembly government spokesperson said plans to improve train services to Fishguard and north Pembrokeshire were included in a report submitted to it last week.
European and American security officials are worried that camps in the desert may be used to train fighters for attacks on North African and European targets.
Best place to drink: The Basketmakers Arms Pub, which has eight ales on tap, is probably the best traditional pub in Brighton, located in the North Laine district, southeast of the train station.
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.
North Liverpool Regeneration Company has also agreed to train 10 people in joinery, bricklaying and construction.
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