NRZ DERAILMENT

The locomotive and four vehicles of a passenger train from Victoria Falls to Bulawayo derailed between Hwange and Entuba at about 03:00 on 3 February. According to National Railways of Zimbabwe ...

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FIRE AT FLORIDA

On 31 January, a high tension blow-out in the leading motor coach of a Metrorail train in Florida West, Johannesburg, during mid-morning caused the vehicle to catch fire.  Damage was also caused to...

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MID-AIR RESCUE AT CAPE TOWN

Unprecedented drama followed a power outage in central Cape Town on 21 January. Nearly a thousand people were stranded on Table Mountain, almost a hundred in two cable cars that stalled in mid-air....

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SIX TRAINS UP IN SMOKE

Damage estimated at R152 million was caused on 18 January when furious commuters set fire to six Metrorail trains north of Pretoria. Power went off at about 16:00, bringing everything to a standstill....

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Tshwane Burnout

Altogether, six motor coaches and 18 trailers were destroyed, according to SA Rail Commuter Corporation CEO Lucky Montana. Police Captain Prince Mokhabela told the media that the trouble started at...

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RSR REACTION TO TORCHING OF TRAINS

The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) is alarmed at the torching of Metrorail trains in Tshwane.  This is a criminal act which we condemn in the strongest possible terms.  We call upon the law...

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VANDALISM DERAILING ZIMBABWE

Vandalism is causing huge headaches for NRZ, the National Railways of Zimbabwe. The problem is especially bad in the south east, where 44km of six-strand copper cabling along railway lines was stolen...

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CAPE TOWN DELAY

Technical problems at Bellville caused lengthy delays to early morning commuter trains to Cape Town on 10 January. Public address announcements and notices at Cape Town station attributed the...

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BUMP AT HEATHFIELD

Peak-hour trains on the Cape Town-Maitland-Pinelands-Athlone-Southfield so-called 'Cape Flats line', which joins the Simon's Town route at Diep River junction, terminate in platform 3 at Heathfield, a...

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TRACK DAMAGED IN KENYA

According to a report in the East African Business Week (published in Kampala), sections of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala railway were 'destroyed in some towns in Kenya' during the civil unrest...

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