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On 23 June 1999, a Virgin Trains electric express train from London Euston to Glasgow Central, hauled by Class 87 No 87027 Wolf of Badenoch, ran into an empty First North Western four-carriage Pacer unit, injuring 27 people. The express had been travelling at about 110 mph (180 km/h), but driver Roy Eccles noticed the Pacer on the line and was ...
Terms for a train driver in other English dialects include locomotive handler, locomotive engineer, locomotive operator, train operator, and motorman. In American English, a hostler (also known as a switcher ) moves engines around rail yards , but does not take them out on the main line tracks; the British English equivalent is a shunter .
This category is for railroad engineers, also known as locomotive engineers, train operators, train drivers or engine drivers, people who operate a railroad locomotive and train. People who design or build them should be in Category:Locomotive builders and designers
A train driver said it had taken him "months and months to come to terms with what happened" after witnessing deaths during his shifts. David Boffin, a Kent-based Southeastern driver for more than ...
An investigation determined that the pickup was driving west on Sunset Drive when the driver went around the crossing arms where the signal lights were activated and was hit by the train, police said.
Witnesses alerted officials and they contacted the train driver, who made an unscheduled stop at Kinding in Upper Bavaria. The intercity express was on a six-hour journey to the northern city of ...
He had given "line clear" for the express train to the preceding signal box before receiving the required clearance from the following signal box. Instead, he should have sent a "blocking back inside home signal" message to Bentley Heath, the preceding signal box, so that the express train could have been slowed in plenty of time by the Bentley ...
The train’s driver was identified by U.K. newspaper The Times as 52-year-old Bruno Rejony. ... text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.