According to a 25 April report in New Vision, published in Kampala, the railway to Uganda remained paralysed for two weeks after youths ripped up the track at Kibera near Nairobi. The area, the...
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On 18 April, Amtrak train 21, the Texas Eagle from Chicago to San Antonio in Texas, derailed a coach as it was pulling out of St Louis, Missouri. The affected vehicle was detached and passengers...
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Bruno Martin reports:
On 23 April, two coal trains collided in Central Queensland.
Rockhampton Police said no one was injured but the wreckage was significant and could take days to clear. The...
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On 12 April, a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) train en route from Victoria Falls to Bulawayo collided with two adult elephants and a calf in the Bongoro area between Dete and Thompson Junction....
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On 15 April, rioting youths ripped up a substantial portion of the main railway running through Kibera township near Nairobi, severely disrupting train operations. Their actions, recalling similar...
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On 18 February, the automatic gates at a light rail crossing in Austin, Texas, failed during a safety demonstration. The fail-safe system, designed to keep a gate open and allow trapped vehicles to...
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Early last month, a driver employed by the Connex rail operating concessionaire in the Australian state of Victoria demanded that the Siemens-built sets in Melbourne be withdrawn until a problem that...
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On 9 April ' the Thursday before the Easter weekend - Shosholoza Meyl's 'economy' class Durban-Cape Town express was stranded for some eight hours between Harrismith and Bethlehem due to theft of the...
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On 2 April, near Jackson, Mississippi, the leading locomotive of southbound Amtrak express The City of New Orleans derailed when it hit a tree. None of the passenger coaches came off the line and the...
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On 23 March, a 19-year-old girl leaped six metres from a railway bridge into North Carolina's Grand River. According to Grand Ledge police chief Martin Underhill, quoted in the Lansing State Journal,...
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