"Heroes" of a rail disaster that left 12 people dead and 46 injured should be remembered, an author has said. Railway workers, doctors and nurses rushed to evacuate casualties – including schoolchildren – following a head-on crash between two commuter trains outside Hull's Paragon Station on the morning of 14 February 1927.

Scores of injuries were reported Monday after a train collided with another in central Europe's Slovakia during morning rush hour on one of Slovakia's primary transpiration corridors.

The man who was hit and killed by an Amtrak train in east Lakeland on Monday afternoon has been identified as 65-year-old Joseph Evju, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Columbus Police shut down traffic at the town's two railroad crossing while investigators poured over the scene.

In 1972, two commuter trains crashed in Chicago, killing 45 people and injuring more than 300. It was the country's worst rail disaster in 14 years and it wouldn't be eclipsed for another two decades. In 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman slugged it out in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), in The Rumble in the Jungle.

Tiruchi Railway Division conducts a mock train accident drill to enhance emergency preparedness and agency coordination for real-life scenarios.

A tragic train collision in eastern Ethiopia has left at least 14 dead and dozens injured. The incident occurred when a crowded train of merchants collided with a stationary train near Dire Dawa. Local mayor Ibrahim Usman confirmed the casualties and expressed sorrow over the delay in medical assistance.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Novi Sad, Serbia, to commemorate the victims of last year's railway station disaster.