On 11 October, the seven-coach northbound Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) passenger train caught fire at Natebe near Livingstone in the country's Southern Province. All the vehicles were badly damaged....
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A storm late on 7 October is blamed for a breakdown in Gautrain service. The Bombela Concession company's Kelebogile Machaka was quoted explaining that the weather caused signalling problems which...
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During the first week of October, according to a radio news report, a 12-year-old girl travelling in a Khayelitsha (Cape Town) train was hit on the head by a rock and died later in hospital. 'At least...
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On 20 July, two class 7E2 (25kV AC) electric locomotives were assigned to train 4101, consisting of 49 loaded CR wagons, bound for Pyramid, north of Pretoria. After stopping at Kgalestad, 8km short of...
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Main Line Passenger Services (MLPS), a department of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), operates Shosholoza Meyl and Premier Classe intercity services. It issued the following...
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On 6 September, Egyptian security forces defused three explosives on the Suez-Al Esmailia railway near the village of Abu Arif. A local resident spotted objects on the line in the early morning and...
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On 2 September, a train of empty coal wagons returning to Durban from Simuma derailed on the bridge over the lagoon at Banana Beach, about 12km north of Port Shepstone. The cause was thought to be a...
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Passing through Charlestown station, Transnet Freight Rail chief investigator T N Govender noticed that a number of overhead traction masts were missing. On closer inspection he found that some 30...
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August was one the wettest in Cape Town in many years. Several low-lying parts of the city were reportedly under water on 28 August, a day when continual rain raised the water table substantially. The...
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Fourteen people were reported hurt, three seriously, in a collision between an Egyptian train and a tourist bus on 28 August. The accident occurred at Kafr al-Sheikh in Tnata. Press reports said...
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