Both Up and Down lines were blocked when one freight train rear-ended another on the same track at Serfontein in the Free State, 249km north of Bloemfontein, on 4 August. Passenger trains from Port...
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According to the Pretoria News on 2 August, the latest report of South Africa's Rail Safety Regulator was tabled in parliament recently. During the Financial Year to 31 March 2004, Metrorail recorded...
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Hundreds of early morning commuters ransacked Metrorail offices at Mabopane station near Pretoria after trains were delayed for up to 40 minutes on 30 July. According to the Pretoria News, commuters...
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Exceptional rains in the Cape Town metropolitan area on 26/7 July left 38,000 people without shelter. Large parts of the suburbs were flooded, including Lower Woodstock, less than 2km from the city's...
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According to a 4 August Sapa report, a freight train collided with a locomotive at Dargle in Kwazulu-Natal. A Netcare 911 paramedic was quoted saying three people had been injured.
Dargle lies 166kn...
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Train services to Vereeniging via Midway were disrupted in 23 July when rocks were discovered on the track by inspectors doing routine checks. "We noticed that rocks had been placed on the railway...
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Electric trains were halted without power near Bethlehem in the Free State on 21 July following the theft of traction wires. Diesel locomotives were sent to rescue stranded services, Spoornet repair...
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A 15 July derailment of a train carrying timber on the coal line to Richards Bay closed both Up and Down tracks, resulting in unavoidable coal train cancellations. One line was reopened the next day...
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On the afternoon of 23 July, a heavy truck ripped down the overhead catenary at Steenberg level crossing, 26kn south of Cape Town, bringing the entire train service south of Retreat to a halt ' in...
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DRIVER TRAPPED FOR 3 HRS A Metrorail driver was trapped inside her wrecked cab for nearly three hours after colliding with an articulated truck that left the road in Pretoria West on 11 July and...
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