Would anybody known details of this in railroad terms? Apparently both trains were southbound. Was it a crash of two trains simultaneously heading for the same junction, where the lines merge? Yahoo News has more than 30 photos from AP, and it looks like a diesel was mostly destroyed. Also, the equipment appears to carry Amtrak red-white-blue narrow stripes! And grills over the locomotive windows.
From the Times of London:
A passenger train heading towards a railway station in northern Egypt collided with a second train yesterday, killing 58 people and injuring more than 140.
Both commuter trains had been heading south from the towns of Mansoura and Benha in the Nile delta when the accident happened outside Qalyoub, 12 miles (20km) north of Cairo.
The Mansoura train was travelling at about 50mph (80km/h) before the collision and had apparently failed to obey a stop signal outside the railway station.
From the Times of London:
A passenger train heading towards a railway station in northern Egypt collided with a second train yesterday, killing 58 people and injuring more than 140.
Both commuter trains had been heading south from the towns of Mansoura and Benha in the Nile delta when the accident happened outside Qalyoub, 12 miles (20km) north of Cairo.
The Mansoura train was travelling at about 50mph (80km/h) before the collision and had apparently failed to obey a stop signal outside the railway station.
