Britain’s Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) is investigating an incident in which a tram departed from two consecutive tram stops in Croydon with all four doors on one side open. Nobody was injured in the incident, but passengers were standing in the vicinity of the open doors and there was the potential for a serious [...]
GOOD IMPRESSION FROM NEW PAINT
Stewart Currie reports in the RSSA’s On Track: “Passing the Germiston line I saw 3 ...
RAILWAYS & HARBOURS CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ATTRACT MAJOR PLAYERS
Railways & Harbours Conference & Exhibition is gearing up for its third event, which will take place at the Tshwane Events Centre in Pretoria from the 1 – 3 October 2013. Many of the major players in the industry are participating at the event. Transnet have just signed for 2000sqm, of space, where the company [...]
NEW TFR TRAIN CREW UNIFORM
New uniforms for Transnet Freight Rail crews are being issued. The first recipients were ten members of the Coal Business Unit staff at Ermelo. Logistics Manager Sizwesamantshali Mtshali handed over the uniforms on 2 May to Operations Managers Christopher Mzimba, Sipho Scheepers and Muzi Zwane. The existing TFR train crew uniforms are to be phased [...]
ACTOM AND ALSTOM SIGN TECHNOLOGIES AGREEMENT
Actom, the largest electrical engineering group in Southern Africa, and Alstom Grid, leading overseas provider of engineered solutions and products for smart and conventional power grids, signed a three-year transmission technologies cooperation agreement in Johannesburg on 23 April. Alstom Grid’s Commercial Vice-president for Southern Europe and Africa Eric Boulot explained: “Alstom and Actom are partners [...]
TFR AUCTION 9 MAY 2013
Peter Bagshawe reports: In the Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) auction that ended on 9 May, all rolling stock lots on offer were sold except for Lot 21 (a single SMLJ wagon at Midlandia, Noupoort – for which no bid was received). This particular wagon also failed to sell at the previous TFR auction which included [...]
COPPER TO DURBAN
According to Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) Executive Manager for International Business Nyameka Madikizela, it had been hoped to sign an important “North-South Corridor agreement” in February but talks were taking longer than expected. In terms of the intended arrangement, “millions of tons” of copper mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (as well as Zambia) [...]
GAUTRAIN RIDERSHIP
The Bombela Operating Company’s Kelebogile Machaka is quoted saying: “Gautrain’s average weekday ridership in March 2013 (about 48,000) reflects an increase of 60% compared with March 2012 (about 30,000). She added ominously that the growth in patronage is placing “severe strain” on the system during peak hours, “with passenger demand already approaching levels only predicted [...]
GAUTRAIN RULES, OK?
A notice on the Gautrain website and displayed in all its trains says explicitly: “The Gauteng Provincial Government. Bombela Operating Company and their shareholders, directors, officers, employees, subcontractors or agents or affiliates in whole or in part, shall not be liable in any way whatsoever for any loss, injury or damage (including but not limited [...]
SENA LINE NO SUCCESS STORY
The giant Brazilian mining group Vale arrived in Mozambique in 2004 were told by the government that the Sena railway to the sea at Beira, inoperable since 1983 due to the civil war, was to be rebuilt immediately. The capacity to move six million tons of coal annually was promised. Backed by a $US110 million [...]
PROBLEMS WITH CHINESE LOCOS AT TAZARA
Until recently, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) reportedly had nine operable locomotives. In terms of the 14th Protocol of Economic and Technical Co-operation signed by the governments of China, Tanzania and Zambia in December 2009, a loan of $US39 million was granted to Tazara. Of this, $24 million was spent on six new 3,000hp diesel-electric [...]
- NEW BUSINESS EXPRESS
- RED SEA TO THE ATLANTIC
- GAUTRAIN TO OFFER BURSARIES
- SHOSHOLOZA MEYL WINTER FARES
- BUSINESS EXPRESS – 2ND JHB-PTA
- TRAM OPERATING WITH DOORS OPEN
- RAILWAYS & HARBOURS CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ATTRACT MAJOR PLAYERS
- GOOD IMPRESSION FROM NEW PAINT
- NEW TFR TRAIN CREW UNIFORM
- ACTOM AND ALSTOM SIGN TECHNOLOGIES AGREEMENT
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