On 28 August, 22 wagons in a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train came off the track near Waldeck in south-western Saskatchewan, about 200km west of Regina. There was speculation that a 'plow wind'...
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Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) group chief executive Lucky Montana recently inspected the Nyanga-Khayelitsha areas in Cape Town's south-east where appalling vandalism caused damage of...
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Power supply outages knocked out two of Cairo's metro lines on 4 September 2014. According to metro spokesman Ahmed Abdel Hadi quoted by Egypt's state-owned news agency MENA, Line 1 was out of service...
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Incidents along suburban passenger lines invariably cause lengthy delays that disrupt schedules and upset commuters' travels. The causes are not apparent to the public which assumes it is incompetent...
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Substantial service disruption followed the derailing of two locomotives and several loaded wagons in a goods train on 12 August near Purulia on the Tatanagar-Chakradharpur-Adra section of India's...
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The recent incident in Perth, Western Australia, when passengers physically tilted a train to free a man whose leg had been trapped between platform and train doorway, made news right across the...
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Passengers were injured and taken to hospital on 17 August when fire broke out on a Metrorail commuter train en route between Hermon and Soetendal north of Wellington in the Western Cape. Emergency...
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Youths, apparently armed, attacked and robbed passengers on a Cape Town Southern Suburbs commuter train on 20 August. The group of four reportedly boarded the train at Steenberg and swapped coaches at...
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A power failure on 29 August caused extensive inconvenience to Gautrain users and in particular travellers on the airport line. A number of stations were closed including Park station in central...
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Forty local residents were evacuated from their homes on 26 August when two tankcars carrying propane derailed in Emerson, southern Manitoba. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) moved the people...
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