This summary presents a comprehensive examination of train dynamics and braking systems—a field critical to ensuring the safety, efficiency and reliability of modern rail transport. Central to this ...

The Chicago Transit Authority’s Yellow Line train crash was caused by a “design problem” involving the train’s braking system, according to federal investigators. The passenger train that slammed into ...

From braking system flaws to questions over why a massive snowplow sat on a Yellow Line track as a CTA train approached, perplexities keep surfacing about a Nov. 16 crash. The southbound train was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Transit Authority and other subway-based systems have what amounts to a safety exemption that gives them a pass from a federally-required technology called "Positive Train ...

On a summer afternoon in Southern California nine years ago, a commuter train blew through a stop signal and ran head-on into an oncoming freight train, killing 25 people. After investigators ...

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...

A commuter train crash in Chicago involving a Chicago Transit Authority train and snow-removal equipment left nearly 40 people injured. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating ...

DUPONT, Wash. (AP) – Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an ...

Wbtec said the new brake technology had undergone one million kilometres of tests. Credit: Shutterstock New brake lining technology from US railway supplier Wabtec will soon be fitted to RER trains in ...