They have just endured a week in which Britain's newspapers have revelled in a dreadful train crash.
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The high speed train crash in Germany is set to become one of the worst train disasters in European history.
He was credited with halting at least three potentially fatal bleeding episodes in the imperial heir, Alexis, a haemophiliac, and with saving Vyrubova's life after a train crash.
In June 1945, 102 died in a train crash in Assling, south of Munich, when an American troop transport train crashed into a train carrying German prisoners of war.
Wherley Jr. and his wife, Ann, both 62, were killed along with seven others Monday in the most deadly train crash in the history of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
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One Saturday while the boss was away his deputy made major changes to the paper to report a train crash and an air disaster, and reasonably expected to be given a pat on the back for his efforts.
Federal officials have narrowed their probe into the cause of a May 17 derailment and train crash in Connecticut, saying a cracked rail joint where the first train slid off the tracks had been repaired by maintenance workers last month.
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The lead train in the crash contained 5000-Series and 3000-Series cars, which are newer and have better technology than the cars in the rear train, with 1000-Series cars.
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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.
We understand the intense public concern and media scrutiny following a commercial airline crash or train derailment.
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Railtrack has overall responsibility for safety, but, as this week's crash showed, the train operators need to improve safety systems too.
The court heard the 115 mph crash took place when the train was derailed by a cracked section of the track.
The bill to introduce PTC was signed by George Bush in 2008 only a month after a crash between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train in California, causing 25 deaths and 135 injuries.
Two people have died in a crash involving their car and a train on a level crossing in North East Lincolnshire.
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It is understood the Cleethorpes-to-Scunthorpe train was travelling at about 60mph when the crash happened, at about 19:40 BST on Tuesday.
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The crash happened when a Thames Trains train driven by Michael Hodder, 31, went through a red signal and hit a London-bound Great Western express.
The UK's worst crash remains the collision between a passenger train and a wooden prop in Gretna Green in Scotland in May 1915, which claimed 227 lives.
Nine safety board teams will examine aspects such as train operations and communications, signals, tracks, crash-worthiness of equipment, maintenance and survivability -- ease of fleeing the trains after the crash and other survivability factors, Hersman said.
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An 84-year-old woman died in February's Cumbria crash when a London to Glasgow Virgin Pendolino train derailed.
The train operators, and Railtrack, will have to respond to this crash by stepping up their spending on safety.
No train passengers were hurt and the service was not derailed during the crash, which happened at about 19:40 BST.
But Mr Darling said such a system still might not have averted the crash as the driver might not have been able to stop the train in time, even if he had been alerted to the car on the crossing.
If there really is no one in the locomotive to stop the Euro train from crashing then there will be a period of giant upheaval and stock market crash.
The crash happened when a broken rail caused the derailment of a London-to-Leeds express train travelling at 117mph.
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