On 4 October, highside open wagons in a Transnet Freight Rail train derailed near Bergrivier halt, 50km from Saldanha on the branch from Kalbaskraal. Track was badly damaged in the incident,...
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Ticket checking on a Metrorail suburban train at Union station near Germiston on 2 October went badly awry. An official was arrested after an altercation between commuters (who allegedly had no valid...
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On 2 October, thieves broke through a Gautrain security fence in Snake Valley near Pretoria, forced open a locked manhole cover and removed about 300 metres of signal cable. All train services to and...
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On 5 October, a 28-wagon TransNamib freight train travelling from Walvis Bay to Windhoek derailed about 45km from Okahandja. Many of the affected vehicles contained fuel oil which leaked, causing...
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On 4 September, a man crossing the lines on foot at Philippi on Cape Town's Central Line was hit and killed by a train. Metrorail's Riana Scott said commuter services were substantially delayed as a...
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Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) group chief executive Lucky Montana recently inspected the Nyanga-Khayelitsha areas in Cape Town's south-east where appalling vandalism caused damage of...
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Power supply outages knocked out two of Cairo's metro lines on 4 September 2014. According to metro spokesman Ahmed Abdel Hadi quoted by Egypt's state-owned news agency MENA, Line 1 was out of service...
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Incidents along suburban passenger lines invariably cause lengthy delays that disrupt schedules and upset commuters' travels. The causes are not apparent to the public which assumes it is incompetent...
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Passengers were injured and taken to hospital on 17 August when fire broke out on a Metrorail commuter train en route between Hermon and Soetendal north of Wellington in the Western Cape. Emergency...
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Youths, apparently armed, attacked and robbed passengers on a Cape Town Southern Suburbs commuter train on 20 August. The group of four reportedly boarded the train at Steenberg and swapped coaches at...
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