On 31 January, two Metrorail commuter trains were set alight at Durban's KwaMnyandu station. Officials told the press they estimated the damage at R40 million. Sapa quoted Metrorail's Thandi Mkhize...
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On 1 February, the Nachicuva River in Northern Mozambique burst its banks at Monapo, resulting in a crater about 70 metres long and 35 metres deep, with the railway hanging in mid-air after the...
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On 6 December 2012, the police at Dunnottar, south-east of Johannesburg, arrested five people found in possession of cable identified as the property of Transnet. Solomon Mthembu, Albert Sambo, Vasco...
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More than 300 people were reported hurt on 31 January when Metrorail commuter train 9017 ran into the rear of stationary train 9009 between Cordelfos and Kalafong stations, shortly after 07:00. One...
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Four coaches on fire (and burned out) in a Metrorail emu commuter set at Woodstock, one station from the main Cape Town terminal, badly disrupted afternoon peak-hour services on 22 January,...
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During the evening of 22 January, two coaches in an incoming Metrorail commuter train from the south-west were set alight at Croesus, south of Langlaagte in Gauteng. A motor coach and trailer were...
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Unprecedented violence on 26 January in Port Said, Egypt's fifth largest city was so extreme that long-distance trains ran through without stopping, to avoid being caught in the trouble. More than 350...
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In the early hours of 15 January, a military train carrying young recruits to an army camp derailed in the Giza neighbourhood of Badrashinthe, a suburb of Cairo. At least 19 people were reported dead...
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Four people were reported dead on 16 January in a collision between a train and a taxi. According to the Middle East News Agency, the movement of trains in Upper Egypt was disrupted for some time....
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Metrorail driver J P du Plessis, 58, was found dead in the cab of an empty commuter set near Hercules station, Pretoria, on Christmas Day. He had multiple stab wounds and is thought to have been...
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