Spain has the finest high-speed rail network in Europe. But on Sunday evening, 18 January, dozens of passengers were killed when an Iryo train from Malaga to Madrid derailed and collided with a Renfe ...

Rising passenger numbers puts strain on high-speed rail network Spain's maintenance spending lags behind European peers, despite network expansion Reports of rail problems and accidents have increased ...

Network Rail placed "too much reliance" on the contractor that built a faulty drainage system that led to a fatal train derailment, an inquiry has heard. Train driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor ...

More than 3,000 rail accidents, causing 23 deaths and nearly 1,200 injuries over the past decade, have been attributed to human error and track defects. Yet, federal ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

A signaller who instructed a train driver to go at normal speed just minutes before it crashed into a landslip was “entirely compliant” with the rules in place at the time, an inquiry has heard. Train ...

Investigators concluded the accident was caused in part by dangerously worn-down rail, one of several types of track defects that, collectively, contribute to about a quarter of the rail accidents in ...