POTASH TRAIN DERAILS

On 6 March, the last 12 wagons in a Canadian National (CN) train carrying potash came off the track in St John, New Brunswick, on a stretch of track owned by the New Brunswick Southern Railway....

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SIX TRAINS TORCHED IN JOHANNESBURG

According to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), six Metrorail commuter trains were torched in Johannesburg on 29 February by members of the South African transport and general workers'...

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SIX TRAINS TORCHED IN JOHANNESBURG

According to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), six Metrorail commuter trains were torched in Johannesburg on 29 February by members of the South African transport and general workers'...

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THREAT TO BURN GAUTRAIN BUS

During the evening of 22 February, a 54-year-old Johannesburg woman told Eyewitness News, three men boarded the Fourways-Sandton Gautrain bus on which she was a passenger. "One had a knobkierie, one...

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POLISH CRASH: 16 DEAD, 58 HURT

On 3 March, Polish TV reported a head-on collision between two express passenger trains at the small town of Szczekociny in southern Poland, leaving 16 people dead and 58 hurt. An official was quoted...

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UK LOCO DERAILMENT

On 3 February, an electric locomotive on hire to Virgin Trains, travelling from Crewe to Wembley, derailed at Bletchley Junction as it was crossing from the up slow line to the up fast, immediately...

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CONCRETE BEAM COLLAPSES IN BANGKOK

The collapse of an elevated concrete beam across rail tracks in the Bangkok suburb Bang Khen on 1 March was caused by metal scaffold theft. Announcing this to newsmen, the State Railways of Thailand...

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AMTRAK PASSENGER DRAGGED, DIES

A passenger on Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited, bound for Chicago, left the train at Rochester in upstate New York late on 21 February for unknown reasons - though rumour suggests he was thrown off for...

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BUUTSKOP BOOMS BROKEN 64 TIMES

Western Cape provincial road safety programme director David Frost told the High Court on 21 February that 64 instances of damage to the barriers at the Buttskop level crossing at Blackheath were...

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DEADLY BUENOS AIRES CRASH

On 23 February, in the worst Argentinian railway accident in 40 years. 50 people lost their lives when a packed morning peak-hour commuter train ran into the platform 2 buffers at Once station in the...

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