R20M COMPENSATION FOR SOWETO VICTIMS

[caption id="attachment_14887" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Paramedics and rescue workers attend to injured commuters lying on the tracks after a train crashed into the back of another...

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UNIONS WANT BETTER PROTECTION FOR DRIVERS

[caption id="attachment_14896" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="DISASTER: More than 800 people were injured in the Soweto train accident last week. Picture: Matthews Baloyi"][/caption]On 23...

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MANHATTAN TUNNEL BLUES

The Long Island Railroad (LIRR), the America's largest commuter rail system, runs 447 trains in and out of New York city's Penn Station on a typical weekday. All enter Manhattan through four tunnels...

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CROSSING VICTIM'S FAMILY SUES RAILWAY

Kathy Hadley, mother of an Eastern Kentucky University student killed on 10 August 2010 when her vehicle collided with a train has filed a civil action lawsuit against CSX Transportation and one of...

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RAIL EMPLOYEE LOSES THREE LIMBS

On 24 May, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) loco foreman Paul Young, 28, Young, married with two young children, was admitted to the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas,...

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DON'T SLEEP ON THE SUBWAY, DARLING

It wasn't the subway this time, but a surface line near Khuma, in South Africa's North-west province. According to a Sapa report, Mama Sekhamane, 26, was 'lying across the tracks' when she was hit by...

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AMTRAK DERAILMENT UNDER EAST RIVER

On Sunday 8 May, an Amtrak train derailed in the tunnel under the East River linking Manhattan to Queens. Heavy delays and cancellations were caused to Long Island Railroad (LIRR) commuter services...

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PASCO ACID SPILL

On 16 May, seven wagons derailed during shunting operations in a yard at Pasco, Washington state. A valve on a tankcar was damaged, causing the vehicle to leak more than 4,000 litres of hydrochloric...

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SIEMENS SUES OVER DAMAGED WINDMILL BLADES

Siemens Energy has filed a lawsuit against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), seeking compensation for a cargo of windmill blades damaged in transit. In August 2010, Siemens manufactured...

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DISPUTE OVER CROSSING GATES

A crash at an Edmonton rail crossing in 2010 that killed a man and his two young children is not likely to have been caused by equipment failure. This is the conclusion in a draft report going to...

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