Main-Track Train Derailment Investigation Report from Saskatchewan

One official investigation report details a main-track freight train derailment near Guernsey, Saskatchewan on 09 December 2019. The report was produced by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and published on the Open Canada platform. It provides a narrative account of the incident involving Canadian Pacific Railway Company's train 516-398 at Mile 48.86 of the Sutherland Subdivision.

Use Cases

• Extract named entities like 'Canadian Pacific Railway Company', 'Guernsey', and 'Saskatchewan' for geospatial mapping of incidents.
• Analyze narrative text to identify common causal phrases or failure modes in main-track derailments.
• Use the report's structured metadata (date, location, company) to join with other rail safety or traffic datasets.

Strengths

• Report is from the official national transportation safety investigation authority.
• Provides specific temporal (09 December 2019) and geographic (Mile 48.86, Sutherland Subdivision) context.

Limitations

• Contains only one incident report, offering no statistical sample for analysis.
• Data is in HTML format, requiring parsing to extract structured information.
• No accompanying structured data columns or sample data are provided.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada / Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada.

Collection Method

Official safety investigation report.

Time Range

Incident date: 09 December 2019.

Freshness

Report metadata was last updated on 2026-03-08.

Geography

Near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, Canada; Mile 48.86, Sutherland Subdivision.