Sleeper cars derail on Amtrak train carrying 311 passengers

Three carriages of an Amtrak train carrying more than 300 people from Miami to New York derailed in snowy Georgia, but no injuries were reported, the company said.

Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said the Silver Meteor train No 98 was backing slowly into Savannah station at about 10pm local time on Wednesday when two sleeper cars and a baggage car derailed.