TRAGIC EAST RAND FATALITIES

During the morning peak hour on 4 March 2014, two scholars aged 15 and 15 alighted from a train near Boksburg at Dunswart station, 13km east of Germiston. Instead of using the footbridge, it appears...

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MUSEUM FIRE AT GEORGE

From Allen Duff: 'A swing-door suburban coach and dining-car 246 Khubusi have been staged adjacent to the George Museum in central George for the last 15-odd years. They served as a restaurant and/or...

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BLUE TRAIN LOCO BURN-OUT

According to Rapport, one of the locomotives hauling the Blue Train caught fire and burned out near Kimberley on 8 February. The newspaper published a colour photo of the fire. Presumably this was a...

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ZAMBIAN PANDROL CLIPS STOLEN

On the night of 2 February, 200 steel pandrol clips were removed from more than 60 metres of main-line track between Mazabuka and Lubombo in Zambia. Had a train arrived before the damage was detected,...

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NACALA LINE RUNAWAY & FATAL COLLISON

On 23 January, the brakes failed on a freight train from Cuamba headed to Nampula. It ran away downgrade out of control and at Iapala station (in Ribaue district) slammed into the rear of the...

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1,600 STRANDED AT DODOMA

According to the Tanzania Daily News (published in Dar es Salaam), 1,600 Tanzania Railway Limited (TRL) passengers remained stranded at Dodoma on 10 January, 'following railway mishaps at Gulwe and...

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KENYAN TRAIN PASSENGERS STRANDED

Hundreds' of passengers bound for Mombasa were reportedly stranded overnight on 14 January after the goods train preceding theirs derailed in the Taru area, blocking the line. Railway officials quoted...

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METRORAIL DISRUPTED IN PRETORIA & CAPE TOWN

Metrorail commuter services were disrupted in both Cape Town and Pretoria on 15 January. According to radio news reports, early morning services on the Central Line in the peninsula came to a...

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METRORAIL DERAILMENT ELANDSFONTEIN

On 3 January, Metrorail train 0610 to Johannesburg from Pretoria derailed between the Elandsfontein and Isando stations at about 06:45, near O R Tambo International Airport. The leading motor coach...

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COLLISION AT DURBAN'S BEREA RD: 11 HURT

On 27 December, 11 people were reported hurt in a collision between two Metrorail suburban trains at Durban's central city Berea Road station. Paramedics who attended said one of the 11 people taken...

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