GAUTENG BREAKDOWNS BLAMED ON RAIN

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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SOUTH AFRICAN DERAILMENTS

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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FLOOD AT UPINGTON

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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RECORD QUEENSLAND FLOODS DISRUPT COAL

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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DERAILMENT NEAR ATLANTA

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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LANDSLIDES IN THE US NORTH-WEST

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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UNION PACIFIC SUES TRUCK DRIVER

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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COSTLY DERAILMENT IN KENYA

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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COAL LINE DERAILMENT

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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FIXING TUNNELS AHEAD OF 9/11 1OTH ANNIVERSARY

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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