In mid-March, six employees of Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) died from a lightning strike while waiting for a bus in Bloemfontein. Two others survived and were hospitalised. TFR general manager (safety)...
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One of the two locomotives heading a TransNamib train from Swakopmund to Windhoek on 27 March broke down and the other apparently ran out of fuel. Arrangements were made to transfer diesel from the...
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Armed gunmen robbing passengers on a Metrorail train near Stellenbosch on 1 March opened fire, wounding one man in the upper arm. The incident occurred between the Lynedoch and Eerste River stations....
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On 13 March, an articulated tanker which had stopped at the Magaliesburg R24 level crossing accidentally moved forward and lightly collided with one of the coaches of a Reefsteamers' steam-hauled...
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According to a copy of an official report we just happened to see, a Transnet road vehicle was being driven in the country near Saldanha on 27 January when a goat ran in front, 'causing damage to the...
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Late on 26 March, a northbound passenger train ran into the rear of another in Thailand's central province of Ayutthaya, a short distance north of Bangkok. Twenty passengers were reported hurt, two-...
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Twenty-seven of the 120 wagons in a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight train came off the track between Keenesburg and Hudson, Colorado, on 22 March. There were no injuries and no...
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A 21-year-old car driver was taken to hospital in critical condition after driving in front of a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train on 28 March. Emergency personnel had to cut him from the wreckage....
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On 2 March, 10 of the 95 wagons in a Union Pacific freight train from Idaho bound for the railways' Hinkle Yard near Hermiston in Oregon derailed near Meacham (in the same state). One wagon said to...
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People in Rural Hall, North Carolina, were showered in sawdust on 34 March when a train on the Yadkin Valley Railroad derailed on an embankment and wagons overturned. A resident sitting on her...
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