South Africa’s Rail Safety Regulator (RSR) has issued a preliminary report on the recent derailment at Modder River, south of Kimberley. Apparently engineering work by Transnet Freight Rail was in...
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In the financial year ending 31 March, 456 fatalities occurred on South African railways due to operational problems, and less than 1,500 people suffered injuries. Collisions accounted for most of the...
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The Railway Safety Regulator is quoted saying that although the testing and commissioning phases are inclusive of testing stock under actual operational conditions, such trains should not have paying...
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In the past year, 394 incidents of crime on trains were reported in the Western Cape, according to Metrorail. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) insists that Prasa is responsible for...
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it will embark on strike action in the Western Cape if its Section 77 application against Metrorail is not dealt with urgently. It announced...
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Fifteen
people were killed on 17 August when the driver of a minibus-taxi apparently
lost control, left the road and plummeted onto the KZN North Coast railway
where it was hit by a Metrorail...
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Shortly before midnight on Tuesday 18 August, the long distance locomotive Shosholoza Meyl - Afro4000 - derailed whilst travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town, 30km outside of Kimberly, Northern...
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Something falling onto the catenary, which caused
it to short-circuit, is thought to be the cause of a power failure on 10
August. The problem affected trains operating north of Midrand. Services...
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A gang of about six, armed with knives, boarded
a train at Retreat and proceeded to rob everyone in the coach. This happened at
about 19:00 on 22 July, on a southbound service. Apparently there...
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On Friday evening 17 July, Metrorail commuter train 9404 ran into the
rear of train 9934 waiting at a red signal (CRN69) on the Up Slow track between
Booysens and Crown stations on the Rand Mineral...
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