Cape Chamber of Commerce President Janine Myburgh, commenting on Metrorail troubles, told the Cape Times, "We are spiralling downward. It will impact negatively on all sectors of the economy. People...
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Speculation continues over the 20 May head-on collision near Peelton, some 50km from East London on South Africa’s Eastern Cape main-line. According to official Transnet Freight Rail (TFR)...
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Following a heated domestic argument in mid-May, Pretoria resident Elsie Maluleke took her children aged 3, 7 and 9, tied them to the rails on a line nearby and waited with them until a train ran them...
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On Wednesday the 20th May 2015, at around 11H30am, a Transnet goods train collided with a Shosholoza Meyl passenger train near Peelton outside King Williams Town. The goods train was en route to East...
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On 21 May, a south-east bound Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) consist collided head-on with the north-westbound East London-Johannesburg intercity express near Peelton, 56km from the coast in the King...
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On the evening of 6 May, a Metrorail train with an estimated 2,000 people on board stopped between stations on the line to Umlazi south of Durban due to the preceding train breaking down. Impatient...
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Vandalism of railway property in the Western Cape reached crisis proportions several times in 2013 and 2014. In the past three years, vandalism cost the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa)...
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Metrorail in Cape Town faces continuing problems along its busy central line to Khayelitsha, notably where the track adjoins informal settlements. Any type of fencing or walling is stolen or broken...
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In mid-March, six employees of Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) died from a lightning strike while waiting for a bus in Bloemfontein. Two others survived and were hospitalised. TFR general manager (safety)...
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One of the two locomotives heading a TransNamib train from Swakopmund to Windhoek on 27 March broke down and the other apparently ran out of fuel. Arrangements were made to transfer diesel from the...
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