Chair says recent derailment highlights need for physical fail-safe defences

Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) warns that a long-standing safety gap in Canada’s railway system continues to expose passengers, workers, and communities to preventable risks. Following the release of its investigation into the 2023 Montreal train collision, the agency issues a new recommendation urging Transport Canada to act immediately.

On November 21, 2023, a Canadian National (CN) freight train collides with a stationary exo commuter train at the St-Léonard–Montréal-Nord station. Investigators find the CN crew fails to comply with a restricting signal, accelerating instead of slowing down. The resulting collision injures six people and derails multiple cars.

“The crew likely assumed the block a

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