Morning peak hour suburban services approaching Cape Town's main terminal were seriously delayed on Friday 31 October due to theft of four metres of multi-core signalling cables during the night....
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Train services were disrupted for four days until 28 October following a collision between two Transnet Freight Rail trains at Tenga, about 50km outside Maputo. Five crew members were treated in...
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It wasn't the most serious accident of the week but it made headlines in the village of Lingwood in Norfolk, where the local paper published graphic photos and many excited comments from locals....
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A 24-year-old British lawyer who apparently drank too much at a party in London's Kensington on 12 April reportedly left his cousin's flat on foot in search of a cellphone signal. He was seen very...
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China's Xinhua news agency reports that three people lost their lives on 22 October when hit by a freight train between the stations at Liang Jiaping and Dingxi in the north-west of the country. A...
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In a bizarre recent accident in Pennsylvania, a police vehicle pursued a car travelling at high speed on the Interstate Highway route 99. The car turned off onto Route 220 but stuck on railway tracks...
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On Sunday 26 October, 19 Metrorail commuter coaches were set on fire in Cape Town's Salt River depot. According to an official statement, effectively five peak hour scheduled trips were lost on 27...
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A Transnet Freight Rail train derailed in Hammanskraal, 45km north of Pretoria, on 3 October, apparently due to Pandrol clips being stolen from the concrete sleepers. No further detail was revealed in...
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On 6 October, Newclare station west of Johannesburg was looted and vandalised. According to media reports, a crowd of more than 200 people believed to be from Kathrada informal settlement were...
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Morning peak-hour Gautrain services on the Pretoria line were disrupted on 21 October. Reportedly only one track was operational between Centurion and Midrand, causing delay to scheduled trains and...
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