Pretoria High Court Judge Mahomed Ismail has ordered the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to pay R1.84 million damages to a youth who lost a leg when he fell from a moving train. The...
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On 30 May, an eight-coach train of Caminhos de ferro de Luanda (CFL) en route from the Viana district to Boavista (in the urban district of Ingombota), derailed. Only minor damage was caused and there...
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A 10 year old girl was critically injured with severe lower limb trauma when she fell between a train and the platform at a Soweto station on 18 May. It is believed she tried to board the train which...
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According to a press report, a woman said to be in her thirties died after she apparently committed suicide at the Luipaardsvlei station on the West Rand on 13 May. No further details are known....
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On 24 May, a bomb threat phoned to Metrorail in Cape Town resulted in Tygerberg station, 3km west of Bellville, being evacuated and all trains on the main-line brought to a halt during the morning...
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A 32-year-old man apprehended on 14 May by Sentrarand security guards was found to be carrying recently-cut pieces of rail. The thief was handed over to the police and was to appear in the Benoni...
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Executive head of Western Cape Heritage Andrew Hall sent an official to investigate Die Burger's report that Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) was busy breaking down the station at Bonnievale. The outcome '...
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Inadequate stormwater drainage from the Arbour Town commercial development at Amanzimtoti, near the Galleria shopping mall, is blamed by Metrorail for serious track problems on its KZN South Coast...
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On 29 October 2006, Cape Town film technician Serge Loutala, 39, was hit in the eye by a stone thrown through a missing coach window on a Metrorail train travelling between Salt River and Nyanga. He...
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On 8 May, a motorist was killed when a Metrorail commuter train ran into his BMW at the Jan van Riebeeck Street crossing in Pretoria North. The car was pushed about 100 metres before the driver could...
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