On 11 June, eleven people were hurt when an explosion took place on a tram in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. Two months previously, on 27 April, four bombs planted in rubbish bins exploded in...
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CSX Transportation has to pay former employee Angela Smith $500,000 in punitive damages following a West Virginia Supreme Court finding that she was wrongly dismissed after complaining of sexually...
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The South African Railway State-of-Safety Report for the period 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 was released recently by the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR). It says 457 people died and more than R1.1...
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From Transnet Freight Rail's Weekly News Bulletin 11-17 June 2012:
Spads (Signals Passed at Danger)
'Since the beginning of the new financial year (1 April) there has been a spate of safety...
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From Transnet Freight Rail's Weekly News Bulletin 11-17 June 2012:
'Transnet Freight Rail's Corporate Safety Office (CSO) is currently rolling out a number of safety focus projects specifically...
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On 5 June, the main north-south St Gotthard Pass railway through the Swiss Alps was shut down after some 3,000 cubic metres came down in a massive rockfall near Gurtnellen. The following day, Swiss...
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A burst water main in east London on 6 June which sent 2 million litres into the Central Line tunnel made Gautrain's problems look like ' well, a drop in the Jukskei River. All services through busy...
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On 31 May it was reported that four people had died and about 100 were injured, some seriously, when five coaches of the Doon Express to Dehradun derailed near Mahrawa in the Jaunpur district of Uttar...
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Late in May, copper cables with a value estimated at R12,000 were found in the possession of a man arrested at Earnestville near Kimberley, where it is said there has been 'a surge' in this type of...
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Episode 1:
According to a 2005 news report:
'Lentegeur station near Mitchells Plain and Mandalay on the line to Khayelitsha have been extensively revamped at an estimated cost of R17.2 million,...
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