On 14 January, Metrorail told the SA Press Association (Sapa) that Gauteng had experienced an unusually large number of train breakdowns, causing cancellations and delays. "These breakdowns are caused...
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Exceptional rains at the beginning of 2011 caused many problems for Transnet Freight Rail. A derailment at Sheepmoor between Ermelo and Vryheid on 3 January - on the line to Richards Bay - resulted in...
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From Luca Lategan, 17 January on sar-L:
'I am stuck in Kakamas! Initially the (possible) floods created a lot of excitement early last week when the waters started to rise. Each day more and more...
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From Bruno Martin in Queensland, 31 December:
'The weather bureau predicted a wet Christmas – and Queensland now faces the worst flooding crisis in its 150-year history. Twelve regional towns have...
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On 4 January, 11 wagons in a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed in downtown Douglasville, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Amtrak's train 19, the Crescent Limited, was detoured via Chattanooga,...
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On 8 January, a landslide between the Washington state border and Vancouver brought rail service between the USA and Canada to a standstill. Freight trains were running again by 9 January but...
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The Union Pacific Railroad has filed a lawsuit against the owner and driver of a truck which collided with a main-line train near New Orleans on 25 November 2010. The locomotives and a number of...
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On 1 January, more than 200,000 litres of fuel worth 'millions of shillings' spilled when five tankcars in a train carrying fuel from Mombasa to Uganda left the track at Nauria, 10km from the border...
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A derailment at Commondale in KwaZulu-Natal on 6 December resulted in closure of the coal line to Richards Bay for four days. Transnet Freight Rail spokesperson Sandile Simelane told I-Net Bridge that...
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On 11 September 2001, the underground rail station beneath New York's World Trade Centre (WTC) was heavily damaged by the terrorist attack, which also flooded the tunnel linking the station to...
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