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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6391633.stm

Last Updated: Friday, 23 February 2007, 22:54 GMT

"Train crashes in Lake District"

First footage of passengers inside the crashed train

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Passengers are reported to be injured and trapped after a train derailed and slid down an embankment in Cumbria.

Nine carriages were left on their side, with some "stuck up in the air", passengers said. Fire crews said it was thought there were "numerous injuries".

The Virgin train, the 1715 from London Euston to Glasgow Central, crashed at Grayrigg near Kendal at 2015 GMT. It had been due in Glasgow at 2154 GMT.

Passenger Caroline Thomson said the train seemed to hit something.

The BBC executive said there were "lots and lots" of walking wounded at the scene."

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UPDATE:

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2007/02/23/ap-state-pa/d8nfmm3o0.txt

"Amtrak says faulty control caused 2006 rush-hour power outage"
By SARAH KARUSH

Last updated: Friday, February 23, 2007 5:37 PM EST

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - A faulty control that improperly restricted power output was at the root of a massive power outage last year that shut down the Washington-to-New York City rail corridor for more than two hours during the morning rush, Amtrak said Friday.

Nearly nine months after the May 25 incident that stranded riders on 112 trains operated by Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, Philadelphia's SEPTA and Maryland's MARC, Amtrak issued its final report on the incident and said procedures are in place to ensure such an incident does not occur again.

Amtrak, which owns and operates the northeast corridor, said the conclusions stem from an investigation by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., or NERC, a self-regulatory organization of the electric industry.

The events leading up to the outage began two days before, when Amtrak reduced the power capacity at one of six substations serving the corridor in order to do maintenance. After the problem was fixed, Amtrak employees tried to restore output to full capacity, but a computerized control never implemented the command, according to a joint report by Amtrak and NERC.

"When we got into the rush hours, we needed the capacity we thought we had and it just wasn't there," said Bob Verhelle, Amtrak's deputy chief engineer."

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UPDATE:

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=170957&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29341

Vol XXIX NO. 341 Saturday 24th February 2007

"Terror clamp 'key to peace'"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW DELHI: Pakistan must clamp down on Islamic militants and keep them from attacking India if peace efforts are to succeed, India's president said yesterday, days after the bombing of a train linking the countries killed 68 people.

Since the train attack, officials on both sides have shied away from the usual fingerpointing that follows such attacks."