A goods train blocked the Chiredzi line near Bannockburn after one of its wagons derailed on 21 April. A passenger train from Bulawayo to Chiredzi, and one running in the opposite direction, could not...
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One person was fatally burned after a coach caught fire at Cape Town's main railway station on 18 April, according to an SABC report. The cause of the blaze was not known, but may have been caused by...
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A 16-year-old train 'surfer' riding on the rooftop of a Johannesburg train was hurled off when he came into contact with the overhead traction wires on 11 April.. After stabilising by paramedics, he...
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Die Volksblad, published in Bloemfontein, reported on 10 April that 5 people found in possession of copper conductor wire had been arrested. Worth R16,000, the cable was stolen from Spoornet's...
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Zimbabwe police have arrested a number of people they describe as 'opposition activists' in connection with an attempt to derail a passenger train in March. Bolts were removed from a section of track...
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On Thursday, 19 April 2007, at around 5:20am, a passenger train coming from Pienaarspoort to Pretoria stopped at a red signal near Greenview. Signal technicians arrived at the site while they were...
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Following the recent battering of Durban and the KZN South Coast by exceptional seas, the railway to Port Shepstone was closed for several weeks due to damage to two bridges....
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Zimbabwe
Master of the Zimbabwe High Court Charles Nyatanga chairs a trust established to benefit child dependants of victims of the 6 March level crossing collision at Dzivaresekwa, outside Harare,...
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At about 03:00 on 3 April, four electric locomotives running light derailed at the south end of Pietermaritzburg station yard, colliding with intermediate supports of a steel pedestrian overbridge,...
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Uganda
Moses Nampala of New Vision, published in Kampala, reports that a Tata truck from the Steel Rolling Mills factory in Masese, Jinja, loaded with vandalised railway slippers worth over 300...
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