On 12 July, a section of a bridge structure on the new Delhi metro collapsed, killing six people. Gammon India, the country's largest civil engineering company, faces a possible two-year ban from key...
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Four people died and at least 50 were injured when a passenger train derailed at Liucheng, Liuzhou county, in China's autonomous south-west Guangxi Zhuang region. Initial investigations suggested that...
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Six people lost their lives and at least 55 others were hurt when a high-speed, two-coach Croatian train travelling from the capital Zagreb derailed in a remote, hilly area about 30km from its...
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The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has lost more than $US29 million through theft of overhead catenary contact wires over the past six months. Lieutenant-Colonel Shadreck Ndabambi, who was...
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About 90 Montana Rail Link (MRL) employees in the Laurel-Billings area (Montana, USA) have been placed on temporary leave following a tunnel collapse near Helena, which caused a reduction in rail...
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On 20 July, a 102-year-old lifting bridge over the Niantic River stuck twice and did not reopen for nearly 24 hours. Boat traffic was badly disrupted as the bridge jammed in the closed position....
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According to the SA Railway Society's KwaZulu-Natal Newsletter, a derailment during the first week of June saw three class 35 diesel locos wrecked, together with five loaded timber wagons. The...
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On 28 July, the class 6E1 locomotive hauling a northbound Shosholoza Meyl Zastron-Johannesburg train, with about 150 people on board, broke down at Welgelee in the Free State. Passengers enraged at...
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Five 10M5 Metrorail suburban motor-coaches, newly delivered ex-shops, were destroyed by fire at the Braamfontein depot in Johannesburg, early on 27 July. It seems difficult to believe that a...
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Late afternoon passenger trains were severely disrupted on 27 July following a track problem at Johannesburg's main Park station. According to the university's Dr Vaughan Mostert, 'there were about a...
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