It is better to take a chance on a derailment than on a collision.
If it is a minor derailment which the conductor is handling, do not rattle him with messages, with requests for reports.
The jar of the passing train threw the draw slightly open so as to disconnect the tracks; thus causing the derailment of the train, which subsequently plunged over the side of the bridge.
Under such circumstances the derailment of a locomotive upon any bridge can mean only destruction; it meant it then, it means it now; and yet our country is to-day full of bridges constructed in an exactly similar way.
The bridge fell, not under the steady weight of two locomotives, but under the sudden shock incident to the derailment of one.
Such does not appear to have been the case at New Hamburg, nor was that disaster by any means the first due to derailment and the throwing of cars from one track in front of a train passing upon the other;--nor will it be the last.
It is, of course, apparent that tracks may at any time be broken by accident, as by earth-slides, derailmentor the fracture of rails.
There was no derailment as there seems to have been at Tariffville.
When the derailmenttook place, however, it was still moving at a considerable rate of speed.
It appears to have been immediately caused by the derailment of a locomotive, however occasioned, just as it was entering on a swing draw-bridge.
As a result of the derailment which ensued the train became divided, and presently the disabled car was driven by the pressure behind it out of its course and over the interval, so that it finally rested partly across the other track.
The inconvenience caused by such derailment would be trifling compared with what might result from a collision with a train standing or passing on the main line.
When this arrangement can be adopted, derailment is obviated, and the engine is brought to a stand by a buffer-stop at the end of siding.
Ordinarily, the mere fact of a destructive derailment leaves little to be discovered when the cause is sought afterward.
Freed of the more crushing responsibilities, Lidgerwood found Bradford and Groner, and with the two conductors went down the track to the point of derailment to make the technical investigation of causes.
In some degree they were covered for the last mile or two of their retreat by an armoured train, which had advanced towards Stormberg during the fighting, and which had barely escaped derailment and capture.
This was the derailment of an armoured train near Chieveley--a catastrophe which had been foreseen for some days by every private and subaltern in the British camp.
Fitzsimmons, passenger, injured near Hedley, by derailment of train No.
The Bunks or Bolster will not deflect, which means that there is always clearance between the side bearings which greatly reduces the danger of derailment on a curve.
Consequently there is always side bearing clearance, and danger of derailment from this cause is eliminated.
We honestly regretted that, owing to the derailment and destruction of trains, drivers, stokers, and often innocent passengers were launched into eternity.
Moreover, we were more than justified in any act of train-derailment that we committed, by the instructions of Lord Wolseley as expressed in his handbook.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derailment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
