A 16-year-old train 'surfer' riding on the rooftop of a Johannesburg train was hurled off when he came into contact with the overhead traction wires on 11 April.. After stabilising by paramedics, he...
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Die Volksblad, published in Bloemfontein, reported on 10 April that 5 people found in possession of copper conductor wire had been arrested. Worth R16,000, the cable was stolen from Spoornet's...
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Zimbabwe police have arrested a number of people they describe as 'opposition activists' in connection with an attempt to derail a passenger train in March. Bolts were removed from a section of track...
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On Thursday, 19 April 2007, at around 5:20am, a passenger train coming from Pienaarspoort to Pretoria stopped at a red signal near Greenview. Signal technicians arrived at the site while they were...
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Following the recent battering of Durban and the KZN South Coast by exceptional seas, the railway to Port Shepstone was closed for several weeks due to damage to two bridges....
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Zimbabwe
Master of the Zimbabwe High Court Charles Nyatanga chairs a trust established to benefit child dependants of victims of the 6 March level crossing collision at Dzivaresekwa, outside Harare,...
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At about 03:00 on 3 April, four electric locomotives running light derailed at the south end of Pietermaritzburg station yard, colliding with intermediate supports of a steel pedestrian overbridge,...
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Uganda
Moses Nampala of New Vision, published in Kampala, reports that a Tata truck from the Steel Rolling Mills factory in Masese, Jinja, loaded with vandalised railway slippers worth over 300...
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During a ticket office cash-in-transit heist at KwaNyandu station in Durban's Umlazi on 2 April, a commuter who had just bought his ticket was shot dead. Another bystander and a security guard were...
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A Soweto teenager whose body was found on top of a train at Midway station in Soweto on 25 March was apparently indulging in the sport known as 'train surfing'. The South African Press Association...
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