Security is tight on Cape Town station's intercity platforms yet somebody made off with the carpet from coach 15 on the Blue Train when it arrived from Pretoria one day in July. The train manager...
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The derailing of a ballast train in February at the Darr River crossing near Longreach in Western Queensland was due to timber piers on a bridge failing. No one was injured but subsequent...
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On 4 July, eight empty wagons in a train of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) derailed near Saco in north-eastern Montana. Nobody was injured in the incident and it was not expected that...
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On 13 July, a truck carrying farm workers ignored a train's siren - according to eyewitnesses - then drove in front of it and was hit on a crossing between Malelane and Hectorspruit in eastern...
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On 9 July, northbound passengers reportedly waited an hour for the Gautrain departure scheduled for 16:40, and were subjected to a further delay of 30 minutes at Sandton. Commuters at Marlboro...
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On Tuesday 10 July, according to radio reports, Gautrain commuters were 'left stranded' at Marlboro due to 'technical problems'. Spokesperson Errol Braithwaite said subsequently that normal operations...
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On 8 November 2011, the 06:45 commuter train from Charing Cross to Hastings overran Stonegate station in East Sussex by 3.9km. Now the South-Eastern company which operates the service has been fined...
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New Delhi's 'Airport Express', the railway from the Indira Gandhi International Airport into the city, was to be closed 'indefinitely' on 8 July, on account of cracks in the structure as well as...
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On 2 July a total power failure reportedly immobilised all trains on the entire Gautrain system including the airport branch for 90 minutes from 19:15, leaving everything ' trains, stations and the...
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One person was killed instantly at the level crossing in Kampala's old Port Bell road when a train ran into three people on a 'boda-boda' (commuter motor bike). The cyclist and the second passenger...
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