A two-year-old girl fell from a Metrorail train between Cape Town’s Heathfield and Diep River stations on 22 February. She was taken to the Red Cross Children’s Hospital where she recovered from head...
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Arrests in connection with thefts that occurred mainly in the Free State and Mpumalanga provinces, affecting not only Eskom equipment but Transnet, Telkom and local municipalities as well, resulted in...
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When a CSX oil train derailed on 30 April 2014, three of the 17 wagons that left the track landed up in the James River at Lynchburg, Virginia. One tankcar was holed, releasing 113,000 litres of crude...
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Three coaches from the Metroplus Express, and two from the Business Express burned out in a fire inside Pretoria’s main station on 23 February. Four people have been arrested. Two other trains were...
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On 22 February, a near-empty passenger train travelling between the eastern cities of Emmen and Zwolle collided at speed with a crane crossing the line at a barrier-equipped crossing near Dalfsen,...
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Britain’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into an accident that took place in Leicestershire. At around 10:27 on 14 February 2016, a passenger train collided with a conveyor...
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Britain’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued a preliminary report on an incident, which is currently under investigation, that occurred at Queen's Park on 5 January 2016. At...
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Britain’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into a serious accident at West Wickham station on 10 April 2015. At around 11:35, a passenger was dragged along the...
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Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has a designated train which runs through certain branch lines in order to eradicate weeds. As the train drives down the tracks it sprays weed killer from nozzles attached...
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On 19 February, an 111-wagon freight train bound for Cincinnati, with two locomotives, derailed two vehicles in its originating town, Indianapolis. Both fell on their sides. One wagon was carrying...
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