Following reports of an incident affecting the overhead power line of a PRASA Rail train en route from Redhill to Greenwood Park in KwaZulu-Natal, which resulted in a number of injuries, the Railway...
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From a Cape Argus report:
'Enraged commuters pelted a full passenger carriage with rocks and stones after their own train broke down, leaving them stranded near Ysterplaat station this morning [30...
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According to a Sapa report,
'Handbrakes of the luxury train that rolled away and derailed in Pretoria on Wednesday [21 April] were not on, the Railway Safety Regulator has found. Neither were the...
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Early on 28 April, a 21-year-old passenger was stabbed on a Metrorail suburban train at Muldersvlei. She died on the scene. Muldersvlei is the junction where the branch via Stellenbosch joins the...
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At approximately 10:30 on 21 April, a Rovos luxury passenger train from Cape Town halted at Centurion, 8.9km south of Pretoria main station, to change engines. This is a standard Rovos procedure, the...
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Jaque Wepener reports:
'Wednesday's [21 April] 'Volksblad' newspaper had a front page article: 'Kroonstad boer ry voor trein in' [Farmer rides in
front of train]. His farm is between Kroonstad &...
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Shortly before midday on 21 April, a Rovos luxury passenger train stopped at Centurion, 8.9km south of Pretoria main station, to change engines. This is a standard Rovos procedure, the last portion of...
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On 17 April, the locomotive and first coach of Shosholoza Meyl's Kimberley-Johannesburg Diamond Express derailed over facing points near Randfontein at about 05:00. According to the government...
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A strike by Metrorail employees in Cape Town ' in its tenth day as at 8 April - has been marred by incidents of arson and cable vandalism. Seven coaches have been set on fire in separate incidents, as...
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Acting Transnet CEO Chris Wells told a press briefing in Johannesburg that there was an overall reduction in the number of derailments in the 2009/10 financial year compared to the previous year....
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