On 8 April, one fully-laden Metrorail passenger train rear-ended another that was stationary on a bridge above John Vorster Drive in Rosslyn, north-west of Pretoria. Both were en route to Mabopane ....
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Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana told a media briefing in Johannesburg on 12 April:
'The probability of one of Metrorail's coaches failing is currently once every 22...
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Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana told a media briefing in Johannesburg on 12 April that Metrorail is to decentralise operations, to reduce the number of empty trains...
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On 11 April 2011, an explosion in a subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during the evening rush hour killed 11 people and wounded 126. The station is within 100 metres of the...
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Sixty people were injured when two Israel Railways passenger trains were involved in a side-swiping collision near Netanya. It is thought that the driver of a train travelling to Tel Aviv ran a red...
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A conductor is suing CSX Transportation after an assailant entered the locomotive, robbed him and shot the driver dead.Michael T Brand filed suit against the company and the Alabama Great Southern...
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The derailment of a number of wagons in a CSX freight on 28 March in Newton Falls, Ohio, caused the evacuation of local residents as a safety measure. A 100-year-old tower building that formerly...
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A derailment near Ermelo on South Africa's heavy-haul coal rail line to Richards Bay put back throughput by some 500,000 tons, industry sources told the Reuters news agency. Both lines of the double...
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According to India Today on 27 March, 'Political unrest has virtually stopped the Indian Railways in its tracks. The railways say 3,611 trains were cancelled and 3,100 'more diverted between April...
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According to the London Evening Standard, train service on the Bakerloo underground line was stopped by water short-circuiting the third-rail power supply between Paddington and Elephant & Castle....
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