A
Shosholoza Meyl passenger train travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town
derailed at Modder River, about 30km south of Kimberley, shortly before
midnight on 18 August. The nearly new Afro4000...
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Fifteen
people were killed on 17 August when the driver of a minibus-taxi apparently
lost control, left the road and plummeted onto the KZN North Coast railway
where it was hit by a Metrorail...
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Late on the afternoon of 22 August, a French passenger rose to use the toilet in a high-speed Thalys train en route from Amsterdam to Paris. At the same time a man emerged from the toilet wielding an...
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Traffic on the Jammu-Pathankote line was disrupted following the derailing of three freight wagons at Kathua. The train was on its way from Delhi to Jammu. Fortunately it was moving slowly and there...
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Shortly before midnight on Tuesday 18 August, the long distance locomotive Shosholoza Meyl - Afro4000 - derailed whilst travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town, 30km outside of Kimberly, Northern...
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On 6 August, a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (Wmata) train derailed at the Smithsonian station in Washington DC.
Nobody was injured, as the train derailed before anyone boarded....
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Something falling onto the catenary, which caused
it to short-circuit, is thought to be the cause of a power failure on 10
August. The problem affected trains operating north of Midrand. Services...
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On 10 August, the second locomotive and six
wagons in a freight train derailed in Spring, Texas. Union Pacific suspects that excessive heat
may have caused track buckling. A hazmat crew was called...
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A small, single-engine plane crashed on to a Long Island, New York, rail crossing on 16 August, killing the pilot, injuring a passenger and shutting down service on a branch of North America’s busiest...
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At about 21:45 on 1 November 2014, a pair of rail carrying trolleys, known as “Ironmen”, carrying a 16 metre length of rail, ran out of control for approximately 8.7km along the Garnant branch line in...
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