On 3 July, four coaches of a special train from Pano Aqil in Sindh, Pakistan, en route to Kharian in Punjab with more than 200 passengers - mostly army men - on board fell into a canal near Gujranwala...
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Gautrain services on the north-south line ran 30 minutes behind schedule in the morning peak hour on 1 July, reportedly due to a technical problem at Pretoria. ...
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The British Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) recently released its report on an incident at Sutton Weaver in Cheshire in which a train driver received a severe electric shock. Apparently one...
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Press reports spoke of commuter “panic” on 28 June when a Mumbai local electric multiple-unit set crashed into and partially overrode the buffers on the dead-end platform 3 track at...
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Transnet opened a case of arson with the police at Ermelo in Mpumalanga following the torching of two minibuses, a truck and a van one night recently. It is suspected that the incidents were linked to...
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On 17 June, an express passenger train heading to Gaafour from Tunis (120km to the north-east) derailed when it collided with a truck at an open, unprotected crossing about 60km into its...
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Failure of a key set of points between Sandton and Rosebank on 17 June seriously disrupted Gautrain service. News24 quoted Bombela contracts executive Ian Findlay saying that technicians were unable...
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An AIA report posted on 15 June:
“Six people were injured when a coach train derailed in Braamfontein on Monday, the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services said. ‘It is not a...
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On 7 March 2015, a steam-hauled passenger train operated by the West Coast Railway Company (WCRC) - which is said to run 90% of charter trains in Britain - overshot a red signal and only came to a...
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Nearly 70 metres of track were damaged in the explosion of a remotely controlled bomb near Bhittai Town in Jacobabad on 6 June. Four coaches in the Jaffar Express (Quetta-Rawalpindi) came off the...
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