Road reopened after train derails in southwestern N.B.

·1 min read
Harvey Fire Department Chief Jerrard Swan says no one was injured and only one of the 10 derailed cars was carrying anything. (Jan Taylor/Submitted - image credit)
Harvey Fire Department Chief Jerrard Swan says no one was injured and only one of the 10 derailed cars was carrying anything. (Jan Taylor/Submitted - image credit)

Route 3 in Harvey Station, about 40 kilometres southwest of Fredericton, was reopened after a train derailment disrupted traffic all of Thursday morning.

Harvey Fire Department Chief Jerrard Swan said firefighters got the call about a derailment near Cedar Lane at around 5 a.m. Thursday. That's the railway crossing near Black's store.

Swan said 10 cars have left the tracks, but all were empty except one carrying lime.

He said the car is leaking, but the material is not toxic.

Jan Taylor/Submitted
Jan Taylor/Submitted

Swan said no one was injured.

RCMP New Brunswick tweeted traffic is being diverted because of the derailment.

Jeff Pleadwell, a nearby resident, said he was sleeping this morning when the NB Southern Railway train was coming through the village toward Saint John. He said he was awakened by a loud sound.

"I heard kind of like a horrible grinding noise or a crash and the train came to a stop," he said.

Pleadwell lives about 200 metres from the tracks and has a clear view of the crossing from his front window.

Swan said railway officials are on the scene investigating the cause.

Anne McInerney, spokesperson for J.D. Irving, which owns NB Southern Railways, said the derailment was reported to provincial officials. The province regulates short-line rail and investigates derailments on non-federal rails.

"We will participate fully," McInerney said of the provincial investigation.

She said NB Southern Rail will also launch its own investigation, and the road crossing is expected to reopen later Thursday morning.

Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting

Latest Stories

  • Manitobans in Red River Valley still reeling from 'devastating' flooding over wet, windy weekend

    Just two months ago, Chao Shen bought his dream house in the St. Adolphe, Man., area and set to work making it a home where he and his wife could raise a family. Now, it's more of a nightmare, with his new home's basement underwater. "I'm feeling sad, very sad, because I just bought this March 8 and I spent $40,000 on renovations, and now it's all flooded," he said. On Friday, Shen returned to his house in the community just south of Winnipeg, after being evacuated from the area due to overland

  • Dr. Scott Jensen wins GOP endorsement for Minnesota governor

    ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Dr. Scott Jensen, a vaccine skeptic and former state senator, won the Minnesota GOP's endorsement on Saturday to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in the November election, going over the top on the ninth ballot with 65% of the vote. Jensen, who led on the first two ballots, regained the lead on the seventh ballot with 59%, just below the 60% needed to claim the endorsement, once Lexington Mayor Mike Murphy backed him after being eliminated on the sixth ballot. “Game ove

  • Eurovision: 'The support warms our heart,' say Ukrainians after music contest triumph

    Ukraine’s Eurovision victory came as a boost to morale in a country shaken by war. But some stressed it’s important that concrete help follows suit. View on euronews

  • New Asian night market — superfresh — aims to showcase culture, cuisine and community

    There's a new night market in Toronto — superfresh — that aims to bring a fresh cultural experience and create a safe space for people to celebrate and discover Asian cuisine. Night markets have been a tradition in parts of Asia where it gets so hot during the day that people prefer shopping and dining in the evenings. Superfresh, which is located in the former Annex Food Hall at 384 Bloor St. West, pays homage to those spaces as an all-day night market that includes multiple vendors that centre

  • Quebec Conservative leader calls for debate in English — even without Legault

    MONTREAL — Conservative Party of Quebec leader Éric Duhaime is inviting Quebec Liberal Party leader Dominique Anglade to take part in an English-language debate ahead of the October election, even if Premier François Legault declines to take part. Duhaime says he believes Quebec’s English-speaking community deserves its own forum to address concerns critical to the community, including health care, education and language issues. On Friday, an English-language media consortium opted to cancel a d

  • Battle rages for Ukrainian region of Donbas

    RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) secretary general, meanwhile, told a meeting in Germany that Ukraine could win the war, calling for more military support and fast-track approval of Finland and Sweden's expected bids to join the alliance.

  • Leeds out of EPL's bottom 3 after stoppage-time equalizer

    LEEDS, England (AP) — Leeds climbed out of the Premier League's relegation zone in dramatic style Sunday after Pascal Struijk's stoppage-time equalizer secured a 1-1 draw against Brighton. Struijk, an 83rd-minute substitute, headed home at the far post in the second minute of added-on time to lift Leeds a point clear of Burnley after Danny Welbeck had given Albion a halftime lead at Elland Road. Following Burnley’s 1-0 loss at Tottenham earlier Sunday, Struijk’s last-gasp goal ensured Leeds’ bid

  • Ukrainian refugees face language barriers as they settle in southwestern Ontario

    Ukrainian refugees are doing their best to get on with their lives after arriving in Windsor, Ont., but say they are facing challenges after fleeing their homeland following Russia's invasion of the country. Daria Yepifanova fled Ukraine on March 8 with her mother Natalya and a one-year-old baby, about two weeks after Russia first invaded. Her city, Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine is just 50 kilometres from the Russian border. It was attacked on the first day of the offensive on February 24. "We t

  • Man's body found in trunk of burned vehicle marks Montreal's 10th homicide this year

    Montreal police are now treating the death of a man found inside a burned vehicle in the city's east end as a homicide. Emergency crews were called about a vehicle on fire in Pointe aux Prairies Park, on Gouin Boulevard, in the Rivière-des-Prairies borough just after midnight on Sunday. Once the flames were extinguished, officers found a dead body in the trunk of the vehicle, according to Jean-Pierre Brabant, spokesperson for the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). "For now, we're

  • Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of abortion rights took to the streets across America on Saturday to make clear their anger at the prospect that the Supreme Court will soon strike down the constitutional right to abortion. Cries of “My body, my choice” rang out as activists committed to fighting for what they called reproductive freedom. Incensed after a leaked draft opinion suggested the conservative majority on the court would vote to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, activists rallied to

  • Nova Scotia Labour Department investigating worker death at Michelin tire plant

    HALIFAX — A workplace death investigation is underway following a fatality last week at a Michelin tire plant in Nova Scotia. The provincial Department of Labour issued a brief statement Sunday saying a worker died Wednesday at Michelin’s plant in Waterville, N.S. The statement said a stop work order issued for the equipment involved in the incident is still in place. “As this is an active investigation, we cannot confirm details regarding the incident,” the department said. Andrew Mutch, presid

  • Australia PM, trailing in election polls, announces housing policy

    Australians will vote for a government on Saturday, with recent polls showing Morrison's Liberal-National coalition on track to lose to centre-left Labor, which would end nine years of conservative government. Morrison's Liberal Party formally launched its campaign in Brisbane on Sunday, with Morrison detailing the housing policy at the event in a last-ditch appeal to voters.

  • French school board apologizes for dress code enforcement blitz

    Ottawa's French Catholic school board is apologizing to students at an Orléans high school and their families after hundreds of students protested a dress code enforcement blitz. Disgruntled students at École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges took to the street Friday to protest the previous day's enforcement blitz, in which mainly girls were called out into the hallway to see if their clothing conformed to the rules. On Saturday, a letter from the school board's director of education, Mar

  • News bulletin 2022/05/15 11:45

    News bulletin 2022/05/15 11:45View on euronews

  • Man, 36, in life-threatening condition after being hit, dragged by car

    Toronto police say a 36-year-old man remains in life-threatening condition after he was hit by a car, then dragged for 100 metres along Church Street in The Village. Officers were called to the area of Church Street and Wood Street shortly after midnight on Sunday. The man was standing in a northbound lane when a grey Honda minivan struck him and dragged him before crashing into an outdoor patio set up in the lane. Police said the driver fled the scene but they found his vehicle on Jarvis Street

  • In early primaries, voters favor polling places over mail

    ATLANTA (AP) — The great vote-by-mail wave appears to be receding just as quickly as it arrived. After tens of millions of people in the United States opted for mail ballots during the pandemic election of 2020, voters in early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting this year. In Georgia, one of the mostly hotly contested states, about 85,000 voters had requested mail ballots for the May 24 primary, as of Thursday. That is a dramatic decrease from the nearly 1 million who cas

  • On This Day: 16 May 2009

    In 2009, Pixar's tenth movie, "Up," had its U.S. premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. (May 16)

  • Mass shooting suspect appears in Buffalo court

    A teenage gunman wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket in what authorities described as “racially motived violent extremism,” killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday before he surrendered, authorities said. (May 14)

  • Companies urged to offer fertility benefits for employees

    Amid stiff competition for workers, advocates are calling on companies to provide fertility benefits to attract and retain talent.

  • Hay River evacuees, anxious but grateful, settle in at Yellowknife's evacuation center

    Since the early hours of Thursday morning, displaced residents of Hay River, N.W.T., and Kátł'odeeche First Nation have been looking for places to stay. Some have opted to seek refuge with family and friends or book hotels, but many depend on evacuation centers. During a public briefing on Thursday, the Northwest Territories government said that there are evacuation centres in Yellowknife, Enterprise, Fort Smith and Fort Providence. Initially, displaced residents were asked to go to Enterprise f