Very early on Monday 4 June, a Transnet Freight Rail train pulling out of the yard at Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt) in Limpopo developed a braking fault. The assistant driver endeavoured to...
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In the course of an investigation into people who live in dangerous places, the Sowetan discovered there are no laws prohibiting habitats near railway lines, or specifying how far or how close they...
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Pretoria High Court Judge Mahomed Ismail has ordered the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to pay R1.84 million damages to a youth who lost a leg when he fell from a moving train. The...
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On 30 May, an eight-coach train of Caminhos de ferro de Luanda (CFL) en route from the Viana district to Boavista (in the urban district of Ingombota), derailed. Only minor damage was caused and there...
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A 10 year old girl was critically injured with severe lower limb trauma when she fell between a train and the platform at a Soweto station on 18 May. It is believed she tried to board the train which...
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According to a press report, a woman said to be in her thirties died after she apparently committed suicide at the Luipaardsvlei station on the West Rand on 13 May. No further details are known....
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At 17:35 on 24 May, a London underground train (a set specially decorated for the queen's 50-year Jubilee this year) broke down on the Jubilee line between Baker Street and St Johns Wood, a short...
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Londoners were still getting over the 24 May Jubilee line misery when more glitches hit the underground. On the following day ' a Friday ' signal faults at Embankment and Barking delayed thousands of...
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Early on Tuesday 22 May, the Hampi Express to Bangalore ran into a stationary goods train at Penneconda station in India's Andhra Pradesh state. Four coaches were derailed and one caught fire. At...
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On 24 May, a bomb threat phoned to Metrorail in Cape Town resulted in Tygerberg station, 3km west of Bellville, being evacuated and all trains on the main-line brought to a halt during the morning...
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