Research shows that improving level crossing accessibility for individuals who use wheelchairs improves safety. Possible measures to improve crossing accessibility include the following:
On 27 July 2016, at about 1:43 a.m., a CN freight train travelling westward on the Springhill Subdivision was approaching downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, when it struck and fatally injured a person in a wheelchair at the Robinson street public crossing.
Railway companies, road authorities, Transport Canada and road users all have a role to play in helping to enhance safety at railway crossings across Canada. Here is some key information on what to do and who to contact to prevent, avoid and report hazards at federal railway crossings.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) continues to investigate the 6 July 2013 derailment and fire involving a freight train operated by Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA) in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.
The investigations conducted by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are complex, and it is never just one factor that causes an accident. The July 2013 train accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, was no exception. There were many factors that caused this accident, the details of which are contained in the 18 findings as to causes and contributing factors. Furthermore, there were 16 additional findings as to risk as well as 6 other findings.
On February 17, 2005, a Canadian National (CN) freight train, proceeding eastward on the CN Kingston Subdivision, struck two pedestrians at the Bartholomew Street public crossing (Mile 124.88), Brockville, Ontario. One pedestrian was fatally injured; the second received serious injuries. The two pedestrians stepped into the path of the eastward train after the passage of a westward train. The Board determined that the two pedestrians stepped into the path of the eastward train while their concentration was fixed on a passing westbound train.
At approximately 1440 eastern daylight time on August 17, 2004, 18 tank cars of Canadian National Train U-781-21-17, a petroleum product unit train travelling from the Ultramar Canada Inc. refinery at Lévis, district of Saint-Romuald, Quebec, en route for Montréal, Quebec, derailed at Mile 3.87 of the Lévis Subdivision, in the marshy area of the Grande Plée Bleue, near Saint-Henri-de-Lévis.
Investigations conducted by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are complex since an accident rarely results from a single cause. In the case of the Field, British Columbia, accident on 4 February 2019 several factors led to the uncontrolled movement, derailment and the fatal injuries of 3 crew members. The 23 findings below detail the causes and contributing factors that led to this occurrence.
On 4 February 2019, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) freight train 301-349 being operated by a relief crew derailed on Field Hill near Field, British Columbia, on a 13.5-mile section of track with a steep descending grade (average 2.2%) and several sharp curves. The 3 crew members—a locomotive engineer, a conductor, and a conductor trainee—were fatally injured in the
Locomotives are equipped with 2 air brake systems: automatic and independent.
The automatic brake system applies the brakes to each locomotive and to each car in the train as well; it is normally used during train operations to slow and stop the train.
