South African Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) Chief Executive Officer Mosenngwa Mofi has announced strengthened safety measures to reduce the incidence of collisions, derailments and other...
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[Translated from a letter in Die Burger, 24 August]
I read with astonishment how the executive head of the Rail Safety Regulator, Mr Mosenngwa Mofi, alleges that most train collisions and derailments...
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According to a news24 item, the locomotive of a Cape Town-Johannesburg passenger train caught fire near Kimberley on 22 August, resulting in extensive delay. This was prolonged after the arrival of a...
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RAIL SECURITY POOR AND WORSENING
The state of railway security in South Africa is unacceptable; it is deteriorating rather than getting better. So says the Rail Safety Regulator's report for 2005-6...
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A Metrorail motor-coach pantograph that became entangled in the overhead wires at Pinelands, 8km from Cape Town, caused extensive delays to morning peak-hour commuter traffic on 22 August. Most trains...
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A fierce fire that broke out on the afternoon of 21 August destroyed the reception area, restaurant, bar and part of the kitchen at Mossel Bay's popular Santos Express Hotel. Municipal fire-fighters...
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ZIM GOVT DEPLORES HARARE COLLISION
Senior officials of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) - Eastern region area manager Stanley Murenje and operations and marketing director Mazi Banana - were...
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One person was killed and at least 55 injured in Harare when a commuter passenger train from suburban Mufakose collided head-on with a goods train carrying granite near the main station on 9 August....
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On 9 August at 09:05 the pick-up from Bothaville in the Free State to Kroonstad ran a hot box near Mothusi. The heat caused the axle to turn off completely, derailing the second-to-last FZ wagon. Over...
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Shortly before midnight on 1 August, a train in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) derailed near Kakenge in Western Kasai province. It was en route from Ilebo to Kananga, the provincial capital....
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