SIX TRAINS TORCHED IN JOHANNESBURG

According to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), six Metrorail commuter trains were torched in Johannesburg on 29 February by members of the South African transport and general workers'...

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SIX TRAINS TORCHED IN JOHANNESBURG

According to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), six Metrorail commuter trains were torched in Johannesburg on 29 February by members of the South African transport and general workers'...

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THREAT TO BURN GAUTRAIN BUS

During the evening of 22 February, a 54-year-old Johannesburg woman told Eyewitness News, three men boarded the Fourways-Sandton Gautrain bus on which she was a passenger. "One had a knobkierie, one...

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BUUTSKOP BOOMS BROKEN 64 TIMES

Western Cape provincial road safety programme director David Frost told the High Court on 21 February that 64 instances of damage to the barriers at the Buttskop level crossing at Blackheath were...

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RAIN DELAYS JOHANNESBURG TRAINS

Heavy rain caused delays to trains on 9 February between Johannesburg and the western side of the city because of power failures in Vereeniging, Nhlazane, Dube, New Canada, Crown, Kliptown, Midway,...

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METRORAIL COACHES BURN AT KUILS RIVER

Damage estimated at some R7 million was caused when a Metrorail train from the Strand to Cape Town caught fire on 10 February in the mid-morning at Kuils River. One coach was completely gutted and the...

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FIVE DIE UNDER S A TRAINS

On 7 February, a woman and two children, apparently standing on the line at Eersterivier, near Stellenbosch, died when a Metrorail electric commuter train ran into them. On the same day, a Transnet...

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ANGOLAN DERAILMENT

A previously unreported derailment occurred on the Benguela line in Angola, late in 2011. The locomotive and several coaches of a passenger train left the track near the Cubal river, 210km from...

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POWER FAILURE, NOT AN ANC BASH

Suggestions that intercity passenger trains to and from Port Elizabeth were disrupted due to the ANC's centenary celebrations were nonsense, Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa CEO Lucky Montana...

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MAN THROWN FROM TRAIN

According to a press report, an unidentified man died after being thrown from a moving train at Kaalfontein, near Kempton Park, on 18 January. Police were said to suspect the incident was linked to...

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