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A passenger train has crashed into the back of a goods train.
At least three people have been killed and nine injured in a train crash in the Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy, near Liege, reports say.
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This looks like a signalling or switching fault, either mechanical or human. I would say that the modern interior design of the carriages kept the deaths and injuries down. Or maybe it wasn't a very full train.
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Saw something on the news about a train struck by lightening ,didnt get where it was though.
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Don't think it was this one, they look to be on the wrong track.
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I believe they were both supposed to be on the same track, but the goods train should have been well ahead of the passenger train. Lightning struck a section of track and disrupted the signals that would have held the pasenger train back.
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