A power failure on 29 August caused extensive inconvenience to Gautrain users and in particular travellers on the airport line. A number of stations were closed including Park station in central...
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The overnight passenger train to Harare with 120 travellers on board derailed eight of its eleven coaches at Heany Junction, 30km east of Bulawayo, on Saturday night 23 August. Twenty-two people were...
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Western Cape Metrorail Regional manager Richard Walker says vandalism and theft account for about a tenth of train delays and cost the company about R382 million over the past three years. He was...
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Transnet Freight Rail platelayers are busy restoring the 5km of line stolen in Nigel, 14km south of Springs in Gauteng. The siding links the former Union Carriage & Wagon plant, now owned by rolling...
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Following the recent increase in Nigerian commuter train fares, protesters set fire to the Itoki station, vandalised wagons and stole tickets, phones and money. The police made 100 arrests. Of these,...
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Heavy rain accompanied by strong north-west winds, characteristic of the Cape winter in Cape Town, is not infrequently the reason for road traffic difficulties and can cause power and signal problems...
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During an attempted robbery in a moving Metrorail train near Kempton Park on 19 July, a man was pushed out of a coach. He was found lying on the platform at Birchleigh station and taken to hospital...
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On 3 July, nine people were hurt when an explosive placed between two coaches was detonated aboard a train on Egypt's Abu-Qir line. It was the first anniversary of former President Mohamed Mursi's...
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A case of theft was opened at Johannesburg's Orlando police station on 11 July after a man with burn wounds was found by a railway technician called to attend a power failure at the New Canada railway...
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On the evening of 8 July, more than 50 people were reported hurt when one Metrorail commuter train ran into another waiting at a red light near Durban's busy Berea Road station. Emergency services had...
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