Shortly after 14:00 on 7 November, tourist class train 71010 from Johannesburg to Cape Town was instructed by radio to take the loop at Frederikstad, 43km north of Potchefstroom, in order to cross a...
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On 29 November, according to press reports, a man was 'ripped to pieces' by a Metrorail train while crossing the Mitchells Plain line in Cape Town, near the Eisleben Road bridge. At least two people...
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On 19 November, an elaborate accident simulation took place at the Cedara tunnel north portal, 20km north of Pietermaritzburg. Press reports said that a freight and a passenger train were supposed to...
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In a derailment at Pietermaritzburg station on 3 November, three electric locomotives overturned and 18 wagons left the rails, causing extensive damage to track and overhead infrastructure. Driver...
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On 24 October, according to the German press agency DPA, a passenger train from Giza ('just across the Nile from Cairo') to the oasis of Fayum, about 80km, collided with another route from Cairo to...
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On 13 October, a Metrorail security guard was shot ' fortunately not fatally - and a train passenger injured at Pienaarspoort station east of Pretoria. It is understood that commuters became angry...
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Metrorail suburban passenger services in Durban were disrupted on 21 September by a widespread power failure. According to spokeswoman Thandi Mkhize, trains in the KwaMashu, KwaDukuza and Umlazi areas...
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The urgency of work involved in the current upgrading of the 781km metre-gauge Chemin de fer Djibouti-Ethiopien (CDE ' the Djibouti-Ethiopian Railway). has been emphasised by a 'string of derailments'...
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The one line refers to the extent of newspaper coverage ' nobody was killed, nobody was injured and no locomotives were written off in this distinctly unnewsworthy event. In railway terms however, it...
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On 9 September, in yet another senseless level crossing accident, two men lost their lives. Their bakkie was hot right in the middle near Stellenbosch by a Metrorail passenger train. It took the train...
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