On 17 September, a double-deck bus operated by the Ottawa local authority ran through lowered barriers into the side of a passenger train locomotive, knocking it off the track. Nobody on the train was...
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On 20 July, two class 7E2 (25kV AC) electric locomotives were assigned to train 4101, consisting of 49 loaded CR wagons, bound for Pyramid, north of Pretoria. After stopping at Kgalestad, 8km short of...
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Main Line Passenger Services (MLPS), a department of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), operates Shosholoza Meyl and Premier Classe intercity services. It issued the following...
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An enquiry chaired by a judge is examining the derailment of a passenger express near Santiago de Compostela in Spain's north-western region of Galicia in July, killing 79 people. The driver of the...
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On 28 August, a disabled wheelchair passenger fell off the platform at Southampton Central station onto the track, five minutes before a train was due. In a bizarre follow-up, a railway employee - one...
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On 29 August, it was reported that two kittens were loose in a subway tunnel in Brooklyn, New York. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) cut power supply to the B and Q commuter lines,...
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Minnesota state law requires rail tracks to be fenced but there was no fence at the spot in the city of St Paul where a nine-year-old gained access to the line during August. Reportedly he climbed...
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A Tunisian national charged with an accomplice of plotting an Al Qaeda-sponsored attack to derail a passenger train between Toronto and New York has refused a Canadian defence lawyer. He was quoted...
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On 6 September, Egyptian security forces defused three explosives on the Suez-Al Esmailia railway near the village of Abu Arif. A local resident spotted objects on the line in the early morning and...
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On 2 September, a train of empty coal wagons returning to Durban from Simuma derailed on the bridge over the lagoon at Banana Beach, about 12km north of Port Shepstone. The cause was thought to be a...
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