Four men appeared in the Queenstown magistrate's court on 17 August charged with stealing copper. They were caught by Transnet security personnel who found them in possession of copper cable estimated...
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On 24 August, a seventeen-year-old boy fell from a commuter train at the Warner Beach station on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. He was taken to local doctors' rooms from where paramedics conveyed him...
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Early on 2 September, eight wagons derailed when a freight train struck the rear of another in south-west Chicago, derailing several wagons, some of which hit a third train on a parallel line. All...
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A double-headed freight train from Chicago heading for Harrisburg in Pennsylvania derailed 37 of its 43 wagons in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at about 07:00 on 8 September. The Norfolk Southern Railroad...
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Injuries totalling 48 were reported on 27 August when a Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Route 51 bus collided with the agency's own light rail train bound for Long Beach at a...
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Two railway wagons which ran away on 21 August in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are puzzling investigators of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF). Loaded with lumber, it was determined they...
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Railway crossing accidents occur all too frequently but few these days involve steam engines. On 26 August, a sports utility vehicle was hit on a crossing in northern New Jersey by a train of the New...
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Investigations into the bizarre midnight accident on 21 August, when two girls died while sitting on a bridge at Ellicott, Baltimore, reveal that the double-headed train of 80 wagons braked suddenly,...
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On 24 August the Xinhua news agency reported that two passenger trains had collided at the Jiamusi station in Heilongjiang province, in the north-east of the country, injuring at least 24 people....
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Six people were hurt on 21 August when a suburban train carrying about 50 derailed between the Tegel and Schulzendorf stations on the S-Bahn in northern Berlin. It is reported that the system, which...
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