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    The Exeter crossing loop collision was a railway accident that occurred between the Temora Mail Train and a goods train at Exeter railway station, New...
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  • The Geurie crossing loop collision occurred on the night of 23 August 1963. Geurie is located between Orange and Dubbo in New South Wales, Australia....
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    A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place...
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    The Zanthus train collision occurred at a crossing loop on the Trans-Australian Railway between Perth and Sydney on 18 August 1999. It is located 739 km...
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  • killed by a collision at Costești. March 13 – Australia – Exeter crossing loop collision, New South Wales. A freight train entering the Exeter station collided...
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    The Exeter–Plymouth line, also called the South Devon Main Line, is a central part of the trunk railway line between London Paddington and Penzance in...
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    Violet Town rail accident (category Train collisions in Australia)
    be held at passing loops (short sections of double track) in order to minimise delays to passenger timetables. One such crossing loop was located at Violet...
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    The Bristol to Exeter line is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line in the West of England and runs from Bristol, to Exeter, from where it continues...
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  • "The Cambridgeshire crossing of death". Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020. "Report on the Collision which occurred on the...
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    Ufton Nervet rail crash (category Level crossing incidents in the United Kingdom)
    with a stationary car on a level crossing on the Reading–Taunton line near Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England. The collision derailed the train, and seven...
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  • are 22 disused railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter line between Bristol Temple Meads and Exeter St Davids. The line was completed in 1844 at which...
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  • critically injured following a collision on 15 January 1944 between the Tamworth mail train and a bus at a level crossing a short distance from Hawkesbury...
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  • India – 2024 Tamil Nadu train collision: In Chennai, a Mysuru Dharbhanga train collided with a freight train on a loop line, causing a fire. Nineteen...
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    Reading–Taunton line (category Transport in Exeter)
    runs to Cogload Junction (east of Taunton) where it joins the Bristol to Exeter and Penzance line. Since 1906 it has served as the principal route from...
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    Railway, its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth, to Salisbury, Exeter and Plymouth, and to Padstow, Ilfracombe and Bude. It developed a network...
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    might have to be shut down to avoid collisions with trains on those adjacent tracks. These are a form of crossing loop, but are long enough to allow trains...
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    M5 motorway (category Transport in Exeter)
    It runs from junction 8 of the M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. Heading south-west, the M5 runs east of West Bromwich and west...
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  • Kororoit Road level crossing at St. Albans when he was struck by the 3.25pm train from Bendigo to Melbourne. He was killed in the collision. On 8 May 1943...
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    Illustrated. No. October 2021. p. 21. "Passenger train collision with a road vehicle at Swainsthorpe level crossing, Norfolk 13 November 2005" (PDF). Rail Accidents...
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    signals into a goods train manoeuvring into these sidings, and in the collision the mail train was diverted into the path of a northbound freight train...
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    operation, when they are operated by the train crew at intermediate crossing loops or at the terminus of the line. This system is widely found in Australia...
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  • freight train (6117) at the Moloney Road passive level crossing near Virginia. As a result of the collision, the two occupants in the van were fatally injured...
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    Train driver injured in level crossing collision". BBC News Online. 19 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021. "Collision and derailment of a freight train...
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    The Northern City Line from Finsbury Park to Moorgate; and The Hertford Loop Line from Alexandra Palace to Stevenage. The branch line to North Berwick...
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    tramway had a level crossing on the SD&JR Burnham-on-Sea branch, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of Ashcott railway station. The collision occurred when the tram...
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    linked up with the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad. In 1901, the Marton loop was opened, connecting Talbot Square and Central Station along Church Street...
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  • completed in February 1857; there had been a serious collision in the previous October at the old crossing. The Llanelly Railway routes were crossed on the...
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    Main Line to Weymouth via Southampton, the West of England main line to Exeter via Salisbury, the Portsmouth Direct line to Portsmouth Harbour which connects...
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    Only thirteen remained by 1999, of which lightly used crossings in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and Exeter, Rhode Island, were soon closed. Despite six nonfatal...
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  • Nulla Nulla South Road level crossing near Moorine Rock, Western Australia. There were no injuries as a result of the collision but there was significant...
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