Fourteen striking rail security guards appeared in court on 13 December to face charges of intimidation and kidnapping. Police expected to link them to other incidents that occurred during two weeks...
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Theft and damage to signal cables during the last week of November disrupted Metrorail commuter train services in Gauteng. Points and signals were disabled due to what a spokesman described as...
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Train service delays near Johannesburg on 8 December were attributed to signal failure at Geldenhuys which necessitated manual flagging. All operations east of Johannesburg were affected, also the...
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On 8 December, the motor coach of a Metrorail commuter set was set on fire in Pinelands, Cape Town. In another incident, seats were burned in a train at Langa. These were the third and fourth...
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On 29 November, Ugandan police arrested the manager of a Jinja steel company which allegedly bought in steel stolen from the state-owned railway right-of-way and melted it down. Both steel sleepers...
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The last time the Blue Train ran into trouble in the Karoo, picking up the pieces ran into something like R50 million before it was up and running again. That was back on 26 October 2005, when the...
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Commuter train service disruptions on 29 November affected Metrorail's Pretoria-Germiston main-line as well as the branch from Kaalfontein to Tembisa. Cable theft at Leralla near Tembisa was blamed...
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The new light rail system in Jerusalem recorded its first fatality on 27 November, when a pedestrian failed to use a legal crossing-point. He was hit by a train near the Old City's Damascus Gate and...
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Somehow we missed this story at the time. For what it's worth, a gas explosion caused damage to the main building of Port Elizabeth station during August. Reportedly, three people were injured. The...
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Nationwide mass demonstrations protesting at fuel shortages resulted in a six-hour rail service shut-down in Upper Egypt on 5 November. Tracks were blocked from 21:00 when the station at Sohag was...
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