AUSTRALIA HAS SEVEN RAIL SAFETY REGULATORS

The Council of Australian state governments has agreed to create a national safety regulatory system and to have the Australian Transport Safety Bureau act as the preferred investigator of rail...

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CATENARY PROBLEM DISRUPTS LIRR 3RD RAIL LINE

Though New York's Long Island Railroad (LIRR) uses third rail power, an overhead catenary problem disrupted service on 25 August. LIRR shares tracks with Amtrak and Metro-North trains, both of which...

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SA ' 2.5 DERAILMENTS OR COLLISIONS EVERY DAY

Business Day quotes Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) spokesman Sandile Simelane saying on 21 August that the company has a target to reduce safety-related incidents by 30%. The Railway Safety Regulator...

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CONCRETE ON THE LINE

At about 19:17 on 28 May 2008, a train travelling from London's Liverpool Street station to Southend Victoria collided with concrete debris lying on the track beneath the new GE19 bridge being...

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THROWN IN FRONT OF TRAIN

On 16 August, a man threw a woman in front of an oncoming Metrorail train on its way from Mitchells Plain to central Cape Town. A resident who lives alongside the railway line in Heinz Park told of...

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THEFTS HALT CAPE TRAINS

On 18 August, Metrorail technicians in the Western Cape battled to repair two signal equipment boxes after a botched cable theft attempt near Nyanga. The Kapteinsklip/Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha...

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MONTANA TUNNEL REOPENED

Trains operations have resumed through Montana Rail Link's (MRL) Mullan Tunnel, which crosses under the Continental Divide near Blossburg, Montana. The line has been closed since a cave-in on 20...

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AMTRAK FAILS IN UNDERWATER TUNNEL

An Amtrak passenger train that broke down in the tunnel under New York's East River on 24 July caused extensive delays to Friday afternoon peak-hour commuter services on the Long Island Railroad...

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CONTAINERS COLLIDE WITH PASENGER TRAINS

Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Bureau (RAIB) is looking into collisions that occurred between two open doors on freight container doors and three passenger trains at Eden Valley south of...

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ZIMBABWE DERAILMENT

On the morning of 17 August, a freight train carrying copper from Zambia to South Africa derailed at Stanmore Siding, about 96km south of Bulawayo on the line to Beitbridge, The Bulawayo Chronicle...

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