Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

GAMAGORI, Japan, July 22 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 22, 2024, shows two maintenance vehicles that derailed in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, after colliding with each other earlier in the day on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train tracks between Toyohashi and Mikawa-Anjo stations in the central Japan prefecture, resulting in the suspension of trains from the day's first services. (Kyodo)

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka, western Japan, is crowded with passengers as shinkansen bullet train services are disrupted following a derailment involving two maintenance vehicles in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 22, 2024, shows two maintenance vehicles that derailed in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, after colliding with each other earlier in the day on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train tracks between Toyohashi and Mikawa-Anjo stations in the central Japan prefecture, resulting in the suspension of trains from the day's first services.

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 22, 2024, shows two maintenance vehicles that derailed in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, after colliding with each other earlier in the day on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train tracks between Toyohashi and Mikawa-Anjo stations in the central Japan prefecture, resulting in the suspension of trains from the day's first services.

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka, western Japan, is crowded with passengers as shinkansen bullet train services are disrupted following a derailment involving two maintenance vehicles in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Shinkansen services disrupted due to maintain vehicle derailment

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 22, 2024, shows two maintenance vehicles that derailed in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, after colliding with each other earlier in the day on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train tracks between Toyohashi and Mikawa-Anjo stations in the central Japan prefecture, resulting in the suspension of trains from the day's first services.

Maintenance workers safeguard power supply in China's Changbai Mountains

STORY: Maintenance workers safeguard power supply in China's Changbai Mountains SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 6, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:30 LOCATION: CHANGCHUN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of maintenance workers 2. SOUNDBITE 1-3 (Chinese): ZOU WEIHUA, Head of maintenance team with the Shenyang Railway Bureau 3. various of maintenance workers STORYLINE: A team of maintenance workers has braved heavy snow and freezing temperatures to safeguard the power transmission lines in the deep Changbai Mountains, northeast China. Led by 43-year-old Zou Weihua, the team consists of 10 members. Their maintenance work is crucial to stable power supply for four stations on the two railway lines in the area. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZOU WEIHUA, Head of maintenance team with the Shenyang Railway Bureau "There are over 170 kilometers of power lines in our work zone, mainly in the forest areas with complex terrains, where is quite hard for vehicles to reach. So we need to complete the inspection tou