On 28 November, the driver of a cement truck lost control of his vehicle in Muckleneuk, Pretoria, breaking through bridge railings and falling onto railway tracks below. He was trapped in the crushed...
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On 21 November, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed at Nutley in Essex County, New Jersey, tipping over containers and spilling contents described as contaminated soil. Response teams worked...
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In an affidavit handed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court, Transnet Freight Rail senior investigator Zacharias de Bruin says the theft of overhead copper conductor cable delays on average 3,285 trains...
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In a unanimous ruling on 27 November, South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) to pay the medical and legal costs of Irvine Mashongwa. He was thrown from a...
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On 29 November, two young men came across a baby, about two months old, wrapped in a blanket, lying next to the railway in Cullinan, east of Pretoria. They took the child to the local police, who are...
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The driver and his assistant were among 19 people killed when the Jaffar Express to Rawalpindi derailed in the Aaab-Gum area, about 75km from Quetta. It is alleged that brake failure caused the...
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A photographer was seriously injured when hit by a train in Boksburg on 22 November. Paramedics found him lying on the ground and rushed him to a nearby hospital. It is believed he was taking photos...
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Cable theft at Cape Town, Woodstock and Kraaifontein delayed train services by more than an hour on 18 November. Metrorail’s Riana Scott said repairs at Cape Town station and Woodstock were complete...
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Investigators from Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF - the French national railway) are endeavouring to discover the circumstances in which children were allowed on board a TGV...
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A TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) derailed in the Bas-Rhin area of Alsace on 14 November, the trailing power car landing up in the adjacent Marne-Rhine canal. In the accident, 11 people died and 42 were...
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