MONTREAL — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has said it will investigate after an Exo commuter train and Canadian National freight train collided on Tuesday evening, sending three men to the hospital with minor injuries.
The CBC reports the incident occurred about 6:30 p.m. at the Saint-Léonard-Montréal-Nord station on Exo’s Mascouche line. Four other people were injured but not taken to hospitals. The incident led to the cancellation of trains on the Mascouche line for the rest of the eveing.
CN said in a statement to CTV News that preliminary reports indicated there were no major injuries or dangerous goods involved, and that the cause remains under investigation.
Did the freight pass through any restrictive signals? Do freights normally move through the station on that or other tracks? What signal indication was available to the commuter train engineer? Was the freight slowing as it struck? Are these tracks dispatcher controlled? If so, what was he/she doing in terms of signal settings? Was PTC active on the freight loco? Assume no PTC on a commuter train, or am I wrong? Is a puzzlement!
FYI no PTC on either train. It is not in Canada.
EXO passenger train stopped at station. Had he already discharged and loaded passengers or just arrived? Is there an exit signal at station and if so what was its aspect? Why was freight even routed on station track? If station platform was a high level then freight would probably not have cleared platform.
What and where was last signal that freight received? Collision was loco to loco. That probably means it was an outbound train. Track lay out?
Per CBC, The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating after two trains collided at a station in Montreal. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Two trains collided at the Saint-Léonard-Montréal-Nord train station Tuesday evening. The incident, which occurred around 6:30 p.m., involved an Exo commuter train and a freight train, according to Montreal police.
Exo, a regional public transit agency operating in the greater Montreal area, said a CN train collided with a stopped Exo commuter train. It was too early to say what caused the impact, Exo said in a media release.
The collision led to the cancellation of commuter trains on the Mascouche train line on Tuesday evening. Passengers were transferred to taxis and shuttle buses.
The impact did not appear to be serious. Urgences-Santé transported three men with minor injuries to hospital. Four others were injured but were not taken to hospital.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada deployed a team of investigators to “gather information and assess the occurrence,” the agency said in a media release.
It has not been a good month for passenger trains!
Or freights —
Just remember the average is three a day
I agree. Not a good month for both passenger and freight trains.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Fortunately, one of the trains (Exo commuter train) was stationary.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün