The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is investigating a 25 May fire at Harare station that extensively damaged four coaches used on the Harare-Mutare route on 25 May. Four vehicles were declared...
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According to the Swaziland Weekend Observer, a succession of derailments is plaguing the country's railway. Barely a month after a specially set up parliamentary select committee reported on its...
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Fire broke out in a Rovos Rail set parked at the company's Capital Park (Pretoria) station at about 23:00 on 21 May. Nobody was on board at the time and there were no injuries. Twelve carriages were...
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In case the current xenophobic-related unrest in Gauteng spreads to the railway, Metrorail has strengthened security measures, according to a statement released on 21 May.
"Our own protection...
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According to a KZN correspondent, a 'major freight train derailment' occurred at Pentrich south of Pietemaritzburg on 8 May, blocking both Up and Down lines. Both the Blue Train and a Rovos special on...
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Heavy rains that deluged Kampala during the weekend 11-12 May caused flooding, aggravating the 9 May closing of the main railway at Bugembe in the Jinja district. Some 32mm of rain were measured at...
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At least 15 people, most of them university students, are reported to have been killed and 28 injured after a train derailed on 4 May in western Sudan. Twenty carriages came off the rails near...
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After six Australian tourists took ill on a Canadian transcontinental express, one was flown by helicopter to a hospital at Timmins, a town 680km north-west of Toronto. Five others on the train also...
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One day at the end of April, passengers on a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) train from Harare who expected to be in Bulawayo at 09:30 only arrived at 17:20, due to a huge veld fire at Natalale...
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Two trains collided at Usakos station between Windhoek and Swakopmund on 3 May. According to TransNamib spokesperson Ritha Nghiitwikwa, quoted by the Namibian (published in Windhoek), the accident...
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