Cable theft cost Transnet about R35.2 million in 2007, minister of public enterprises Alec Erwin has told parliament. He was answering a question posed by the Democratic Alliance. The figure compares...
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Following a collision on the Anna Mupetami Avenue level crossing in Walvis Bay, a heavy truck and trailers 'were dragged through the railway fence and only came to a halt behind the first building...
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On 16 June, according to a report in Beeld, 42 wagons of an iron ore train derailed near Rustenburg. The vehicles, some said to be damaged beyond repair, lay strewn beside the track over a distance of...
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Unseasonably heavy rains on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast on 17 June resulted in flooding which washed away the well-known screw-piled bridge over the Izotsha River on the coastal section of the...
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Metrorail suburban services south-east of Bellville were badly disrupted on 17 June when a substation supplying traction power at Kuils River was damaged by a surge in Eskom voltage, according to...
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On 19 May, a Swiss engineer was brought to Cape Town to assist in repairing a fault on the city's cableway. The system had been closed since 13 May, when a problem stranded 60 people in the two cabins...
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Tuesday 20 May was not a good day for commuters in Cape Town. Lightning ' something seldom seen in the mother city ' knocked out a railway transformer at Woodstock, one station away from the main...
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The Johannesburg-Durban main-line faced closure of at least a week following a massive derailment on 2 June above Boughton, about 7km north-west of Pietermaritzburg. According to press reports, three...
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Crime on Cape Town trains has decreased by 37% for the year, the Cape Argus reports, 'mostly thanks to the introduction of railway police.'
Unfortunately the officers cannot be everywhere, all the...
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On 28 August 2007, a locomotive trailing eight wagons loaded with 500 tons of ballast ran out of control down an incline between Kruin and Gammams. Between 20:00 and 20:20 that evening - at the 262.4...
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