On 28 November, the driver of a cement truck lost control of his vehicle in Muckleneuk, Pretoria, breaking through bridge railings and falling onto railway tracks below. He was trapped in the crushed...
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In an affidavit handed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court, Transnet Freight Rail senior investigator Zacharias de Bruin says the theft of overhead copper conductor cable delays on average 3,285 trains...
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In a unanimous ruling on 27 November, South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) to pay the medical and legal costs of Irvine Mashongwa. He was thrown from a...
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On 29 November, two young men came across a baby, about two months old, wrapped in a blanket, lying next to the railway in Cullinan, east of Pretoria. They took the child to the local police, who are...
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A photographer was seriously injured when hit by a train in Boksburg on 22 November. Paramedics found him lying on the ground and rushed him to a nearby hospital. It is believed he was taking photos...
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Cable theft at Cape Town, Woodstock and Kraaifontein delayed train services by more than an hour on 18 November. Metrorail’s Riana Scott said repairs at Cape Town station and Woodstock were complete...
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It is reported that copper & brass fittings have been stolen from six historic locomotives stored at Waterval Boven. These are class 25NC 3476 ,19D 2526, GMA/M 4056 ,15F 2909 ,15F 2985 and GCA 2621....
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Arsonists brazenly set fire to three trains inside Cape Town’s main station on 20 October. At approximately 02:00, two trains standing side by side at platforms 9 and 10 were set alight. Four motor...
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On 22 October, a Metrorail train ran into trouble at Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg on the line to Vereeniging. According to a resident who lives near the line, there were explosions aboard after...
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Cable theft near Beaufort West caused major delays to two Shosholoza Meyl intercity trains on 22 October. Both were en route to Cape Town, one from Johannesburg, the other from Queenstown. Altogether...
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