Rail transportation

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Rail transportation safety investigation report

Rail transportation safety recommendation R91-01

Reassessment of the response to Rail Safety Recommendation R91-01

Fencing regulations

Background

At approximately 2100 eastern daylight time on 24 May 1990, a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) freight train, designated as Extra 1841 East, travelling at 30 mph, struck and seriously injured a pedestrian on a railway bridge at Mile 2.4 of CP's Ellwood Subdivision, within the campus boundary of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.