Rail Accidents and Incidents

Pedestrians ambling across tracks seconds before a train passes and vehicles disobeying level crossing signals. Dozens of videos showing rail near misses have been released in a call for better public behaviour near trains.

Footage of near-fatal incidents from across Adelaide's rail network has been released as transport authorities roll out a campaign urging pedestrians to be more cautious around trains and trams.

A passenger train carrying 800 people collides with a truck in Russia's south-west, causing a number of the carriages to derail.

The man was arrested at a railway site on Sunday after three coordinated arson attacks paralysed most of France's high-speed railway network over the opening weekend of the Paris Olympics.

Hours before the Olympic Games opening ceremony was due to begin, a coordinated arson attack brought down France's rail network. Here's what we know so far. 

A childhood friend of Anand Runwal, who died while trying to save his twin daughters from an oncoming train at Carlton rail station, described him as a loving family man who always stayed in touch with his friends.

The bodies of a father and one of his twin two-year-old daughters are removed from Carlton rail station after the girls' pram rolled on the tracks.

Emergency services were called to Carlton Railway Station on Sunday following reports a pram carrying two children had rolled onto the tracks from the platform.

In 2021 the freight train Ray Anglesey was aboard collided with a road train, leaving him with a broken neck. Now recovered, the 73-year-old has returned to work and is campaigning for safety at level crossings.

At least 13 people have died and more than 25 were injured when an express passenger train collided with a goods train in India's West Bengal state, local police officials say, as rescue teams work to extricate others feared trapped.

Four people have died and 26 were injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, according to the regional governor.

The Mining and Energy Union says the fact that there have been no serious injuries or deaths in the past 12 months — despite four derailments in the Pilbara in that time — can be put down to "more good luck than good management". 

Rail authorities were alerted to the fatal consequences of a train and truck crash in SA's north when a member of the public answered one of the dead drivers' phones, a preliminary report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau finds.

The Mining and Energy Union has accused Rio Tinto of seriously downplaying the risks posed by this week's automated train crash in the Pilbara, including its concerns about spilled diesel contaminating water supplies.

A man has a lucky escape after jumping out of his car before it is hit by a train at Devonport, in the state's north-west.

The train, operated by mining giant Rio Tinto, crashed and derailed just after midnight about 80 kilometres from Karratha.

Floodwaters on the Nullarbor are slowly starting to recede more than a month after drought-breaking rain cut off outback pastoral stations in one of Australia's most isolated regions. 

Train companies plead guilty to breaching rail safety laws in wake of fatal train crash north of Melbourne.

Rail officials plead with country drivers to not take risks at level crossings as hair-raising footage emerges of a train and truck coming within "a second" of a catastrophic collision.         

Police said Aroulen Chinnien, who was in his 20s, and woman in her 30s died after being hit by the train at Berowra Railway Station about midnight.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns condemn the activity of the balaclava-clad group, with the premier considering outlawing the Nazi salute.

NSW Premier Chris Minns says "normal people don’t celebrate Australia Day with a balaclava on" as a group of men dressed in all black caused a train to be abruptly terminated at a Sydney train station.

Police confirm a 19-year-old man who was hit by a train at a North Adelaide pedestrian crossing died at the scene of the collision.

Police allege the truck driver involved in the collision was distracted on his phone before the crash that derailed the train and disrupted the freight route in and out of the Top End. 

SA Police says a white SUV hit the train at a level crossing on Skewes Road on Wednesday afternoon. The driver of the car was taken to hospital as a precaution.