Cape Town's south-easter, which usefully cools the warm summer months, usually leaves the bringing of winter storms to the north-wester, howling in from the Atlantic. Occasionally the city experiences...
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In an incident reported in the Ghana Chronicle, six people were arrested when they were caught red-handed with stolen railway track in a Mercedes truck. Acting on information received, the police set...
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Thieves in the Orange Free State have been stealing beams off steel catenary masts. It is reported that they use a cable attached to a vehicle to pull the mast down, after making a cut. The optic...
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Recent incidents in the OFS include a locomotive that ran into the stopblock at Vierfontein station and was damaged and an incident at Featherstone when a driver misjudged matters and crashed the...
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In a recent mishap at Hennenman, a station on the main-line between Kroonstad and Bloemfontein, a staff caboose attached to a train of grain wagons broke loose, running away several kilometres down a...
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On 31 October at the Cliffdale level crossing - 52km from Durban on the double-track main-line to Pietermaritzburg ' a truck pulled forward after waiting for a train to pass, not realising there was...
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On 28 October, subsidence a metre deep developed in the northbound lane of Oxford Road, close to Gautrain emergency shaft E3. A vehicle owned by a Bombela employee fell into the hole. Traffic was...
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Six people were killed and seven seriously injured on 23 October when a freight train carrying lime from Atlanta collided with a security vehicle at a level crossing near Brits, north-west of...
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According to the 22 October Cape Argus, two Zimbabwean sisters, both post graduate students at the University of Cape Town, were attacked by security guards on a Metrorail train. On completion of an...
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A derailment occurred on 12 September on the metre-gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railway, CFDE (Chemin de fer Djibouti-Ethopien) which extends 781km from the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba to the port of...
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