Damage estimated at some R7 million was caused when a Metrorail train from the Strand to Cape Town caught fire on 10 February in the mid-morning at Kuils River. One coach was completely gutted and the...
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On 7 February, a woman and two children, apparently standing on the line at Eersterivier, near Stellenbosch, died when a Metrorail electric commuter train ran into them. On the same day, a Transnet...
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A previously unreported derailment occurred on the Benguela line in Angola, late in 2011. The locomotive and several coaches of a passenger train left the track near the Cubal river, 210km from...
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Snow and ice have caused continuing delays to trains in the south of England, during very cold weather similar to that which has plagued western and Eastern Europe, where temperatures as much as 40...
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Bulgarski Durzhavni Zheleznitzi (BDZ ' Bulgaria's state railway) has been asking people to avoid travel by train except in 'absolute emergency'. Heavy snowfalls have seriously disrupted train...
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On 1 February, the lead locomotive and 'at least' two coaches of an Amtrak intercity express derailed after colliding with a semi-trailer rig stuck on a crossing at Leoni, 72km south of Lansing,...
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Suggestions that intercity passenger trains to and from Port Elizabeth were disrupted due to the ANC's centenary celebrations were nonsense, Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa CEO Lucky Montana...
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According to a press report, an unidentified man died after being thrown from a moving train at Kaalfontein, near Kempton Park, on 18 January. Police were said to suspect the incident was linked to...
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A man who apparently tried to commit suicide by throwing himself under a train at Dube (west of Johannesburg) on 26 January was taken to Baragwanath Academic Hospital in critical condition ' without...
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A man wanting to cross the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia, into South Carolina on 20 January somehow managed to drive his Ford pickup onto a railway bridge where it became wedged between the...
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