DURBAN COMMUTER DIES DURING HEIST

During a ticket office cash-in-transit heist at KwaNyandu station in Durban's Umlazi on 2 April, a commuter who had just bought his ticket was shot dead. Another bystander and a security guard were...

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ANOTHER SURFING DEATH

A Soweto teenager whose body was found on top of a train at Midway station in Soweto on 25 March was apparently indulging in the sport known as 'train surfing'. The South African Press Association...

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DERAILMENT NEAR CHICUALACUALA

A goods train carrying Zimbabwean sugar and ferro-chrome for export through the port of Maputo derailed on 22 March near Chicualacuala in Gaza province, Mozambique. Caminhos de ferro do Moçambique...

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ZIM TRAIN PETROL-BOMBED

On 23 March, a petrol bomb was thrown into a Bulawayo-bound passenger train shortly after it left the Harare main station at 22:30. Near Mhuri Imwe Primary School in the Mufakose township, the driver...

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NELSPRUIT DERAILMENT

A 12 March freight train derailment a short distance east of Nelspruit station in Mpumalanga caused considerable disruption. The wagons left the rails on a bridge, forcing closure of the road...

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TRUCK DRIVES INTO TRAIN

A truck smashed into the side of a moving freight train at a level crossing near Malmesbury on 11 March and was dragged almost 100 metres before the locomotive could be stopped.  ...

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OREX DERAILMENT

On 20 February 2007 at approximately 13:52 a test locomotive collided side-on with locomotives of another train in the Spoornet Salkor yard near Saldanha. One electric locomotive, one coach and four...

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CROSSING DISASTER AFTERMATH

ZIMBABWE Zimbabwean vice-president Joseph Msika visited the scene of the 6 March bus-train accident and donated Z$3.5 million to the families of the 36 passengers who were killed when a commuter...

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ZIM CROSSING SMASH KILLS 35

In a horror crash at a Harare level crossing earlier this week, 35 people died and 24 were badly hurt when their bus collided with a freight train. The heavily loaded bus from Dzivaresekwa, authorised...

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ROVOS DERAILS AT BULAWAYO

Five coaches of a luxury Rovos Rail excursion train returning to South Africa from Victoria Falls derailed during departure from platform 2 at Bulawayo station at 04:00. According to Chas Rickwood,...

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