The apparatus also com prises means for closing the air-brake pipes whenever desired, as when making up a train.

A large group of asylum-seekers fled into the Kent countryside after sabotaging the brakes of a freight service that had carried them through the Channel Tunnel, the train's owner said yesterday.

A brake pipe valve was left closed on a Caledonian Sleeper train which overshot the platform at Edinburgh Waverley, a preliminary rail accident investigation has found.

Safety Alert: A potential train disaster was avoided in Shamli district when the driver spotted an iron pipe on the track, halting the train just in time.

A preliminary report released Thursday by federal investigators blames Union Pacific Railroad for the oil train derailment earlier this month in the Columbia River Gorge. “Union Pacific’s ...

PALAKKAD: The feed pipe connecting the eighth and ninth bogies of the Nilambur Shoranur Passenger train was found cut at the Nilambur railway station on Friday.

They said there are possibilities of the brake-pipe between the locomotive of the ill-fated Dehradun-Varanasi Express and the coaches were apparently disconnected causing brake failure of the train.