A 25-year-old man who sat on the line until a train came was badly injured at Durban's busy Berea Road station. He was taken to hospital in critical condition. According to a press report "The man...
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Infrastructure maintenance backlogs are a recurring theme in reports about Africa's railways, with derailments often blamed on poor track. Less frequently ' though this seems to be pure luck ' bridges...
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Ten people died and hundreds were reported injured in a passenger train crash near the Cameroon capital Yaoundé on 29 August. On the previous day, a train with 13 wagons carrying gas derailed to the...
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Business Day quotes Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) spokesman Sandile Simelane saying on 21 August that the company has a target to reduce safety-related incidents by 30%. The Railway Safety Regulator...
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On 16 August, a man threw a woman in front of an oncoming Metrorail train on its way from Mitchells Plain to central Cape Town. A resident who lives alongside the railway line in Heinz Park told of...
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On 18 August, Metrorail technicians in the Western Cape battled to repair two signal equipment boxes after a botched cable theft attempt near Nyanga. The Kapteinsklip/Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha...
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On the morning of 17 August, a freight train carrying copper from Zambia to South Africa derailed at Stanmore Siding, about 96km south of Bulawayo on the line to Beitbridge, The Bulawayo Chronicle...
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In the financial year ended 31 March, according to South Africa's Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), the number of incidents relating to open train doors on Metrorail remained 'high'. Over 74 were...
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According to a report from the South African Press Association, a passenger was fatally shot in an overnight Johannesburg-Durban train at about 23:00 on 11 August. His wife and another man were taken...
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On 25 February, diesel loco 34 047 heading a freight train from Skoonspruit to Bothaville in the Free State was involved in a head-on collision at Schuttesdraai. The driver had disregarded...
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