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Findings from TSB investigation R23D0108: November 2023 train collision in Montréal, Quebec

Investigations conducted by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are complex since an accident rarely results from a single cause. In the case of the November 2023 train collision in Montréal, several factors led to the accident. The five findings below detail the causes and contributing factors that led to this occurrence. Additionally, the TSB made two findings as to risk and 3 other findings.

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Figure 4. Damage to car EXO 3062 and the rear portion of locomotive EXO 1346 (Source: TSB)

Train collision underscores urgent need for physical fail-safe defences on Canada’s railways

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TSB to highlight long-standing safety risk following investigation into 2023 train collision and derailment in Montréal

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) will hold a news conference to release its investigation report (R23D0108) into the 2023 main-track collision and derailment involving a Canadian National Railway Company freight train and a Réseau de transport métropolitain (exo) commuter train, in Montréal, Quebec.

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TSB deploying a team of investigators following a train derailment near Jaffray, British Columbia

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TSB Recommendation R25-01

All responses are those of the stakeholders to the TSB in written communications and are reproduced in full. The TSB corrects typographical errors and accessibility issues in the material it reproduces without indication, but it uses brackets [  ] to show other changes or to show that part of the response was omitted because it was not pertinent.

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TSB deploys following a train derailment near Elko, British Columbia

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