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The operator of a New Jersey Transit River Line train was killed when the train hit a downed tree in Mansfield Township, NJ, Monday morning, October 14, 2024. The incident also left 23 passengers ...
Police are investigating after a person was struck and killed by an NJ Transit train in Ramsey on Wednesday morning.
A train operator is dead and 23 are injured after a New Jersey Transit train hit a tree early Monday, officials say. A River LINE train was traveling southbound from Trenton when it struck a tree ...
The train collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train. RAR-80-8: July 9, 1980 Quaker City: Linden, New Jersey: Equipment collision 1 17 The train struck a rail protruding from a work train. RAR-80-12 November 7, 1980 Empire State Express: Dobbs Ferry, New York: Train collision 0 84 A Conrail freight train collided with the Amtrak ...
On February 6, 1951, a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States, killing 85 passengers. It remains New Jersey's deadliest train wreck, the deadliest U.S. derailment since 1918 and the deadliest peacetime rail disaster in U.S. history.
1833 Hightstown rail accident, Hightstown, New Jersey; two killed plus 15 injured. Earliest recorded train accident involving the death of passengers. [1] [2] 1837 Suffolk head-on collision, Suffolk, Virginia; 3 killed plus dozens injured. Later in the year, a second accident resulted in ten injuries, with two of them ultimately dying. [3]
Bloodied passengers escaped through the train's windows, while others staggered onto the platform, which was blocked by a collapsed section of the roof. Passengers on New Jersey train describe ...
Following the train crash, New Jersey Transit issued new regulations requiring that engineers must be accompanied by at least one other crew member as they pull a train into Hoboken Station. [36] In addition NJ Transit also mandated a reduction in the approaching speed limit into the train station from 10 miles per hour to 5 miles per hour.