On 28 February, a freight northbound out of Kroonstad ran into difficulties in the 15km section to the first station, Westleigh. Deciding to split the load, the driver uncoupled the rear wagons....
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On 4 March, four Metrorail coaches ran away down a slight grade and derailed near Brackenfell station, 26km from Cape Town on the main-line to the north. It appears they were being worked on at a...
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On 28 February, a freight northbound out of Kroonstad ran into difficulties in the 15km section to the first station, Westleigh. Deciding to split the load, the driver uncoupled the rear wagons....
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On 27 February, two class 34 diesels - 34 047 and 34 048 - were involved in a head-on collision. Several mielie wagons also left the rails and have since been rerailed. Loco 34 048, heading the...
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from The Chronicle (Bulawayo):
'A couple from Makhado Village under Chief Sitauze area in Beitbridge District was run over by a speeding passenger train while taking a nap on The tracks along The...
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On 23 February, according to an SABC report, a Shosholoza Meyl passenger train with more than 300 people aboard derailed at Ga-Dikgale outside Polokwane in Limpopo province. The passengers were...
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Transnet Freight Rail locomotive driver Lulama Farmer (23) died after being struck by a car in Heidelberg, south-east of Johannesburg, on 8 February. According to The Star, 'Farmer and her friend...
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On 27 January, a Johannesburg-based passenger train derailed when it collided with a stopblock in the Naledi staging yard, Soweto. According to Metrorail spokesman Sibusiso Ngomane, quoted by the...
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At about 04:00 on 8 February, four class 18E electric locomotives, parked unattended in a siding near Belfast, were apparently set in notion (onto a slight downgrade) by the vibration of a passing...
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On 20 January, a 33-year-old Transnet employee was crushed fatally between two locomotives at the Makhado (Louis Trichardt) station in Limpopo. According to police captain Ndwamato Vele quoted on...
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