The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) estimates the cost of damage caused by fire at Germiston station on 14 July at R30 million. Apparently there had been delays to the service and...
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On 13 July, a 20-wagon TransNamib train hauled by two locomotives derailed a vehicle conveying sulphuric acid near Dune 7 between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. Emergency workers from the Rössing...
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Gautrain services on the north-south line ran 30 minutes behind schedule in the morning peak hour on 1 July, reportedly due to a technical problem at Pretoria. ...
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On 17 June, an express passenger train heading to Gaafour from Tunis (120km to the north-east) derailed when it collided with a truck at an open, unprotected crossing about 60km into its journey. “At...
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Gautrain services on the north-south line ran 30 minutes behind schedule in the morning peak hour on 1 July, reportedly due to a technical problem at Pretoria. ...
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Transnet opened a case of arson with the police at Ermelo in Mpumalanga following the torching of two minibuses, a truck and a van one night recently. It is suspected that the incidents were linked to...
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On 17 June, an express passenger train heading to Gaafour from Tunis (120km to the north-east) derailed when it collided with a truck at an open, unprotected crossing about 60km into its...
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Failure of a key set of points between Sandton and Rosebank on 17 June seriously disrupted Gautrain service. News24 quoted Bombela contracts executive Ian Findlay saying that technicians were unable...
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An AIA report posted on 15 June:
“Six people were injured when a coach train derailed in Braamfontein on Monday, the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services said. ‘It is not a...
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Copper signal cable has been targeted by thieves in a number of incidents recently in the Barkly West area near Kimberley. Between 19 and 20 May, in two separate thefts, some 85 metres of cable were...
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