A Metrorail passenger train bound for Umlazi derailed early on 11 April at Merebank, 14km south of Durban's main station. Though no coaches overturned, 135 people were reported hurt, 21 seriously....
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According to a radio report, three coaches of Shosholoza Meyl's once-weekly Durban-Cape Town train - known formerly as the Trans-Oranje or Orange Express - derailed in the Free State early in April....
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South Africa's Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) is conducting investigations into the cause of the recent accident at Oakmoor on the Johannesburg-Pretoria main-line. Passengers on a Metrorail service...
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In another incident on Wednesday 25 March involving timber wagons, nine passengers sustained injury (six critically) when their train passed stationary freight wagons loaded with timber logs - some...
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Youths protesting about a shooting incident held up a commuter train from Dandora to Nairobi for several hours. Train service was suspended, inconveniencing thousands.
Continuing violence since the...
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According to a police report quoted by News24, three workers died and another three injured when they were electrocuted while working on a pole at the Khayelitsha rail extension project in the Western...
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According to a recent Financial Mail report on grain conveyance, 'the industry produces a steady stream of anecdotes about TRF's poor maintenance and the shortage of locomotives and experienced...
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A 'mob of angry passengers', according to Metrorail spokesperson Thandi Mkhize, set fire to a coach early on 20 February at Phoenix, north of Durban. She was quoted saying passengers became "agitated...
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According to an unconfirmed report, people lifting and cutting up narrow-gauge track using Transnet gear in the Paddock area west of Port Shepstone on South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal south coast have...
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Reprinted from Metrorail Western Cape newsletter Blits, 24 January:
This morning I boarded train 3202 at Oostersee Railway Station (05h00 train Strand to Cape Town via Monte Vista) I went to one of...
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