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 Translation for 'derailment' from English to French
NOUN   a derailment | derailments
trains
déraillement {m}
derailment
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Translation for 'derailment' from English to French

derailment
déraillement {m}trains
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Usage Examples English
  • Following the derailment, a joint report by London Underground and its maintenance contractor Tube Lines concluded that poor track geometry was the main cause of the derailment.
  • The most notable derailment on the line, the 1910 Spanish River derailment, occurred when the line was still operated by Canadian Pacific.
  • On June 10, 1971, Tonti was the site of the 1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment which was a derailment of Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" passenger train.
  • ... 655958), south of Grayrigg was the site of the Grayrigg derailment, a fatal derailment involving a Virgin Trains West Coast service from London Euston to Glasgow Central.
  • Tank cars have been involved in many rail disasters, including the Lac-Mégantic derailment in Quebec in 2013, the Nishapur train disaster in Iran in 2004, and the Viareggio train derailment in Italy in 2009.

  • More than 35 people sued Amtrak for damages resulting from the derailment. As of April 2022, Amtrak had paid more than $45 million in damages for derailment related injuries.
  • The case received new attention after the 1995 derailment in Palo Verde, Arizona.
  • On 10 February 2016, another derailment, involving railway track machines, occurred near Rushall.
  • In February 2019 flooding damaged the railway line, resulting in the derailment of a Pacific National freight train with 81 wagons at Nelia.
  • Eminence is the Federal Emergency Management Agency refugee center established to take evacuees from Denver, Colorado as the event of an explosion at a train derailment and the subsequent detonation of a smuggled Russian nuclear weapon which was in the derailment wreckage in the 1999 TV movie "Atomic Train".

  • The 1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment was a train derailment in the town of Le Roy, New York which resulted in a spill of toxic chemicals.
  • Cars 2289 and 2290 were damaged in the 1977 Chicago Loop derailment on February 4, 1977. After the derailment cars 2289 and 2290 were later retired and scrapped.
  • The Matsukawa derailment, an alleged sabotage that resulted in the derailment of a train, occurred near the station on August 17, 1949.
  • In extreme cases such as the 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment a wheel with an untreated flat spot can damage the track and cause a derailment.
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