Four Transnet Freight Rail workers were killed and two others seriously injured when a train collided head-on with a motorised track maintenance trolley on 26 July, the Railway Safety Regulator...
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On 10 July, a heat wave was blamed for air-conditioning failure in three high-tech Deutsche Bahn (DB) ICE trains, westbound from Berlin in Germany. Passengers were described as being 'near collapse'...
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The New South Wales Supreme Court has fined the Australian Track Corporation (ARTC) A$200,000 for safety breaches which caused the death of two maintenance workers in July 2007. The Independent...
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On 16 July, a CSX locomotive and four freight wagons, including three tankcars carrying ethanol, jumped the track in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, yard but did not overturn. Nobody was injured and the...
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Early in July, Vista - a local newspaper in the Volksblad group - published a photograph of a police official in a closed truck containing 16 lengths of rail. A team of five was busy cutting the long...
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It was reported recently that two 4-6-2 class 16CR steam locomotives had been cut up for scrap at the St Helena mine in the Free State. It is learned now that this was done illegally. The engines were...
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In a terrible accident in India's West Bengal at about 02:00 on 19 July, more than 60 people died and over 150 were injured, many badly. The Uttar Banga Express ran into the rear of the Vananchal...
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Damage to rolling stock, track and cargo estimated at $US970,000 resulted when five wagons in a freight train from Gummern, Austria to Kostrzyn, Poland jumped the track near Augsburg on the main line...
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On 8 July, a Union Pacific Railroad coal train en route from Wyoming to south-east Missouri derailed about 8km north-west of Onaga in nort-east Kansas. No injuries were reported.
According to company...
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On 11 July, three days after 23 wagons in a Union Pacific coal train left the track near Onaga, Kansas, another of the company's coal trains derailed 43 of its 134 wagons near Silver Lake. Some coal...
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