Theft and damage to signal cables during the last week of November disrupted Metrorail commuter train services in Gauteng. Points and signals were disabled due to what a spokesman described as...
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Train service delays near Johannesburg on 8 December were attributed to signal failure at Geldenhuys which necessitated manual flagging. All operations east of Johannesburg were affected, also the...
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On 8 December, the motor coach of a Metrorail commuter set was set on fire in Pinelands, Cape Town. In another incident, seats were burned in a train at Langa. These were the third and fourth...
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An electric failure shut down the entire Berlin S-Bahn suburban commuter rail network on 15 December, leaving the German capital without any service. The system is operated by a subsidiary of Deutsche...
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The popular view that rail breakdowns are calamities mainly confined to South Africa is regularly dispelled in this column. Never more so than in December, when thousands were trapped underground in...
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(Official statement by the CSX Transportation company, USA:
'Three CSX trains collided in Porter County in Northwest Indiana, about 14:15 (Eastern Time) on Friday 6 January. Two employees on one...
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On 29 November, Ugandan police arrested the manager of a Jinja steel company which allegedly bought in steel stolen from the state-owned railway right-of-way and melted it down. Both steel sleepers...
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Nobody knows yet what caused a fire that engulfed two coaches of a train from Kolkata to Dehradun in east India. Seven passengers were confirmed dead. The driver was able to detach the burning coaches...
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A locomotive that ran through a derailer on a siding in Bladensburg, Maryland, on 6 December tipped over and spilled 2,250 litres of fuel. The Prince George's County Fire Department assisted crews...
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On 4 December, six loaded hopper cars in a 110-wagon CSX Transportation coal train derailed in downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina. Four tipped right over, spilling their cargo. Two level crossings...
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