FAECES ON TRAINS: 184 ARRESTS

On 10 June, police arrested 184 people on a train from Khayelitsha at Esplanade, one station before Cape Town. Western Cape police spokesman Captain Frederick van Wyk alleged they were on their way to...

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TANZANIA TAKES CROSSING ACCIDENTS SERIOUSLY

An extraordinarily detailed report on a level crossing accident appeared in the Tanzania Daily News (a Dar es Salaam paper) on 29 May. A commuter train hit a car near Moshi Bar at Ukonga in Dar es...

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MAN ELECTROCUTED AT CAPE TOWN STATION

On 28 May, a man described in press reports as a vagrant who had been sleeping on the deck above Cape Town's main station fell during the night onto the 3kV overhead traction wires, being instantly...

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BRAKPAN COLLISON: FOUR HURT

Two Transnet Freight Rail goods trains collided at Brakpan on Gauteng's East Rand on 21 May. Photos (see next issue of Railways Africa magazine) showed a class 36 diesel locomotive ' 36 096 - on its...

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CABLE THIEVES DIE UNDER TRAIN

Three men fleeing from a patrol on 23 May ran across one line of a double track section near Durban's KwaMashu after a train passed but fell in front of another train on the second track. All three...

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DEAD BODY FOUND IN RAILROAD CAR

Well, that was the heading in the Diamond Field's Advertiser, though it would have been a strange finding if it wasn't dead. GWK employee Thomas Papier, 48, went missing for two days before his body...

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SISHEN-SALDANHA LINE DERAILMENT

On 5 May, a number of loaded ore wagons derailed on the Sishen-Saldanha line near Moravia, spilling their loads and ripping up a lengthy section of track....

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MORE SLEEPER THEFT AT CULLINAN

Nathan Berelowitz reports that some 140 steel sleepers were stolen on the Cullinan line. The weekend passenger excursion scheduled by Friends of the Rail could get no further than Rayton junction on...

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LEVEL CROSSING AWARENESS

Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) carried out a number of activities on 9 May as its contribution towards observing International Level Crossing Awareness day, which fell on the seventh. TFR says it will be...

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FATAL TFR SHUNTING ACCIDENT

On 29 April, at about 09:45 during shunting operations at Trichardt station, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) yard employee Ayanda Dlamini was fatally injured. Apparently three tankcars had been shunted...

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