Barely a week after Gautrain services began running to Pretoria, theft of about 100 metres of electric cable shut down morning peak-hour operations north of Centurion.
"There will be no Gautrain...
Read More
Read More
A senior police officer from the crime intelligence unit has been brought in to lead the fight against copper theft, newly appointed Transnet CEO Brian Molefe told Chris Barron of the Sunday Times. He...
Read More
Read More
On 29 July, early in the morning, a Worcester-bound Metrorail train derailed outside Bellville. Then a power failure disabled the Wellington-Kraaifontein section. Further delays resulted when a...
Read More
Read More
On 5 August, a Metrorail commuter train was set on fire ' apparently deliberately - at Stikland, 22km east of Cape Town on the main-line to the north. Shortly before 21:00 after the Friday evening...
Read More
Read More
On 10 August, a westbound freight train from Bloemfontein ran head-on into a stationary eastbound train at Petrusberg, on the line to Kimberley. Eyewitnesses said the driver and assistant of the...
Read More
Read More
Six people were arrested on 8 August for trying to steal railway lines between Malebitsa and Driefontein, in Tuinplaas, outside Bela Bela, Limpopo police told News24. 'Lieutenant-colonel Mohale...
Read More
Read More
According to the Johannesburg Times, an employee in the metals industry was beaten, stripped, called igundwane (rat), stripped naked and savagely bludgeoned with a sjambok, sticks and rocks by a group...
Read More
Read More
OFS police have arrested 18 men, 'mostly foreigners', who were caught with sections of rail, cutting torches and other equipment in their possession. The rail was removed near Villiers during June,...
Read More
Read More
In the last week of July, six people were killed and 12 injured in a collision between an express train and a lorry loaded with bricks in the town of el-Fashn in Beni Sueif Governorate, about 120km...
Read More
Read More
On 26 July, heavy snowfalls resulted in the cancellation of trains between Johannesburg and Durban, also East London.
According to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa): 'All trains from...
Read More
Read More