train and railway Safety

Running head : TRAIN AND RAILWAY SAFETY

Train and Railway Safety Abstract

The questions of the safety regulations acquire more and more importance in the last years . The scientific and technical progress propose permanently new methods and solutions for the needs of the railway transport . And simultaneously demands new safety conditions of the passengers and the staff of the railway companies . Besides , the processes of globalization in the world should be followed with the unification of the safety regulations and standards . That is why to understand current safety regulation existing in

various railway companies in the world . The attempt of studying approach to the safety regulation practices used in two big railway companies from the various countries of the world was used in this research

Train and railway safety

Table of contents

Introduction , 4

Safety Regulation in Russian Railways , 5

Case of the train accident with Russian Railways trains , 11

Safety at American Railways , 14

Case of the train accident with Amtrak trains , 18

Comparison between Russian Railways and Amtrak , 22

Conclusion , 24

Appendix A . Amtrak 's Ten Year Accident /Incident Report , 26

Appendix B . A number of accidents and crashes of Russian Railways tracks in 1996-2007 , 29

Appendix C . Comparison of some parameters by Amtrak and Russian Railways , 30

References , 31

Introduction

In this research it was tried to analyze systems of safety regulations in two big railway companies , representing two biggest railway networks in the world , - the Amtrak Corporation from the USA and the Russian Railways from the...