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The car was hit by a passenger express which derailed and then collided with a fully-laden coal train.
Transport officials said one of the rear wagons may have derailed first, pulling others off the line.
An express train travelling from London to Leeds derailed after a rail broke on the East Coast Main Line track.
The two derailed locomotives remained upright after jumping the tracks, as did two of the five rail cars, Melonas said.
In 1998, the same Golden Temple Express rammed into three derailed cars of another train, killing more than 200 passengers.
In June 2003, a runaway train on the same line derailed in Commerce, destroying two homes and injuring 13 people.
During the General Strike in 1926, saboteurs derailed the Flying Scotsman and two of the 10 coaches it was pulling.
I was anxious about what a derailed security apparatus at a small airport could do to me over nothing more than an innocent safety razor.
The four trucks derailed at 11.15 am when a locomotive was shunting 29 trucks backwards in preparation to leave for Johannesburg later.
He's following the path of conservative hawks who have derailed progress with North Korea for the past decade.
The locomotive, tender, and first three cars derailed, and the express car was partially telescoped by the tender.
In my upper berth, there were a couple times when I was sure that we'd derailed.
Meanwhile, the economy is mired in recession, while its traditional locomotive, the export sector, is being derailed by the strong euro.
Similarly, there's no question that there's an academic mommy track and that it has derailed many a promising career.
At least two cars containing 75,000 board feet of timber derailed, dumping out much of the contents.
The train derailed, releasing a towed locomotive that hurtled into a sleeping car and exploded, killing 11 people.
Three engines and 11 boxcars derailed near the 3800 block of Croton Avenue.
They have identified 85 trouble spots where engineers fear trains could be derailed by tracks that have begun to break up.
And should the talkers determine not to be derailed, they'll find themselves still in a state of war at the end of their peace talks.
Nine cars of a coal train derailed early Tuesday about 13 miles east of Gillette, Wyoming.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On 7 May 1969 a northbound sleeping car express train from London to Aberdeen derailed on the curve.
But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-night stand with slacker Ben Stone results in an unwanted pregnancy.
A legal dispute over Hogwash Cleaning Solution's logo nearly derailed the launch of Scott Rackley's new business.
His book must serve as the essential prolegomenous study to any derailed and comprehensive research on Erasmus as editor of Jerome.
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