THIEF CAUGHT BLOWTORCHING TRACK

On 30 November, Union Pacific Railroad police in Modesto, California, arrested a 40-year-old man who was coolly blowtorching sections off the railway track. He was cutting it into lengths of about a...

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BLUE TRAIN IN TROUBLE

The last time the Blue Train ran into trouble in the Karoo, picking up the pieces ran into something like R50 million before it was up and running again. That was back on 26 October 2005, when the...

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CABLE THEFT HALTS GAUTENG TRAINS

Commuter train service disruptions on 29 November affected Metrorail's Pretoria-Germiston main-line as well as the branch from Kaalfontein to Tembisa. Cable theft at Leralla near Tembisa was blamed...

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LRT KILLS MAN IN JERUSALEM

The new light rail system in Jerusalem recorded its first fatality on 27 November, when a pedestrian failed to use a legal crossing-point. He was hit by a train near the Old City's Damascus Gate and...

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PASSENGER HEAD-DOWN BETWEEN PLATFORM & TRAIN

From: Passenger accident at Brentwood station, a Crown copyright 2011 report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, UK Department for Transport: 'At 23:42 on 28 January 2011, a passenger...

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MALAYSIAN MONORAIL STRANDS TOURISTS

The Malucca River monorail in Malaysia has experienced 21 service disruptions since it started operations on 10 October 2010. The line runs 1.6km from Taman Rempah in Pengkalan Rama to Kampung Bunga...

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AMTRAK PASSENGERS ROBBED

It doesn't only happen in South Africa. Two 18-year-old students at Michigan State University were robbed when they alighted from an Amtrak train at Battle Creek, Michigan, at midnight. Threatened...

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INDUSTRIAL BLASTING STOPS BULGARIAN TRAINS

Train services on the lines Sofia-Vidin, Sofia-Varna, and Sofia-Ruse lines were halted on 23 November by blasting at a mining facility near Thompson in north-east Bulgaria. A section of track was...

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DROUGHT CLOSES UK LINE

Abnormally dry weather in the UK was blamed for 30km of the railway between Ely in Cambridgeshire and Downham Market in Norfolk being closed on November 20 and 27 for repairs. It was explained that...

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DERAILMENT IN MONTANA

Late on 19 November, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight train derailed about a dozen wagons east of Glasgow, Montana. According to reports, some vehicles landed upside down and on their...

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