THIEF CAUGHT WITH PIECES OF RAIL

A 32-year-old man apprehended on 14 May by Sentrarand security guards was found to be carrying recently-cut pieces of rail. The thief was handed over to the police and was to appear in the Benoni...

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BONNIEVALE: PROVINCE TAKING TFR TO COURT

Executive head of Western Cape Heritage Andrew Hall sent an official to investigate Die Burger's report that Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) was busy breaking down the station at Bonnievale. The outcome '...

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NEWSPAPER ROLL KILLS RAILWORKER

On 19 May, a 43-year-old railway employee died in a freak accident in Philadelphia. Two rolls of newsprint paper with a mass of nearly 1,000kg each apparently shifted inside a boxcar during transit....

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COLLISION IN TURKEY

On 9 May, a passenger train from the Turkish Mediterranean port city of Mersin ran into an empty passenger train at a station in the city of Adana, causing slight injuries to nine passengers and two...

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THE DANGERS OF WEDDING PHOTOS ON RAIL

Operation Lifesaver (www.oli.org ), a non-profit American rail safety education organisation, is currently emphasising the risks in a trend in the USA of taking photos on railway lines, bridges etc....

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SOUTH COAST METRORAIL PROBLEMS

Inadequate stormwater drainage from the Arbour Town commercial development at Amanzimtoti, near the Galleria shopping mall, is blamed by Metrorail for serious track problems on its KZN South Coast...

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MAN SUES METRORAIL OVER LOST EYE

On 29 October 2006, Cape Town film technician Serge Loutala, 39, was hit in the eye by a stone thrown through a missing coach window on a Metrorail train travelling between Salt River and Nyanga. He...

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MOTORIST DIES IN CROSSING COLLISION

On 8 May, a motorist was killed when a Metrorail commuter train ran into his BMW at the Jan van Riebeeck Street crossing in Pretoria North. The car was pushed about 100 metres before the driver could...

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SHIP-BRIDGE COLLISION STRANDS TRAINS

During the night of 28 March, a container ship collided with the Limfjorden railway bridge at Aalborg in Denmark, stranding four IC3 intercity sets and six MR diesel multiple-units. To retrieve the...

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MUSEUM THEFT IN IRELAND

Metal thieves who broke into a railway museum in County Down, Northern Ireland, stole four buffers and three coupling screws from rolling stock and tried to rip steel cabling from a steam crane....

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