According to South Africa’s Rail Safety Regulator, human error was the cause of 71% of railway accidents in this country last year. Among accidents in the period 2014/2015:10 May 2014: An empty...
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A CSX freight train derailed in a North Baltimore (Ohio) yard early on 13 October. Nobody was injured but no further details were available – number of wagons involved, etc. The incident is being...
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A 115-vehicle Union Pacific train derailed 11 wagons carrying sulphuric acid in the town of Big Sandy, Texas, on 15 October. About 170 metres of track was damaged and had to be replaced before trains...
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At about 02:00 on 20 October 2015, Metrorail suburban trainsets parked at platforms 9 and 10 in Cape Town’s main station caught fire. Four motor coaches and six plain trailers were totally burned out....
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Commuters on their way home to the southern peninsula had a nasty shock on 8 October when their train burst into flames at Muizenberg. Three teenagers allegedly put off for having the wrong tickets...
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It is reported that the dedicated car train, conveying new vehicles from the Eastern Cape to Gauteng, derailed somewhere near Colesberg, between Noupoort and Springfontein. No details were available...
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Experts are trying to discover why so many oil trains have been derailing across the United States. A review of 31 incidents since 2013 places most of the blame on track failure. In fact track...
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No injuries were reported when a westbound Union Pacific freight train derailed 13 wagons about 9km south-west of Simms in Texas, 56km west of Texarkana, on 9 October. There was no danger from...
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On 13 October, two men dressed in female Islamic attire with only their eyes visible, one armed with a gun, entered platform 24 on Cape Town station from the Marine Drive entrance and began shooting –...
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The Shosholoza Meyl intercity passenger train that left East London on Sunday 4 October expected to be in Johannesburg on Monday morning. Passengers were hopeful that it would be a little late,...
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