Heavy rain accompanied by strong north-west winds, characteristic of the Cape winter in Cape Town, is not infrequently the reason for road traffic difficulties and can cause power and signal problems...
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On 27 July, five of the 18 coaches comprising the luxury Eastern and Oriental Express tour train derailed between the Sakosinarai and Luk Kae stations in Thailand's Ratchaburi province. Two Japanese...
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Three employees of the defunct Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMAR) are on trial in Canada, charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death. This follows the July 2013 incident when...
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During an attempted robbery in a moving Metrorail train near Kempton Park on 19 July, a man was pushed out of a coach. He was found lying on the platform at Birchleigh station and taken to hospital...
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A school bus carrying 38 children failed to stop at a crossing in the Medak district, 95km north of Hyderabad in Southern India, on 24 July. In the resultant collision with a train, 18 were killed as...
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A tourist train collided with one carrying commuters at Taebaek, a South Korean resort area about 200km south-east of Seoul, on 22 July. One person, reportedly in her 60s, died and about 65 were...
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Two locomotives and four passenger coaches of a White Pass & Yukon tourist train left the track in south-east Alaska on 23 July, leaving nine occupants with light injuries. The excursion was on a...
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Three locomotives and 10 freight wagons left the track at Slinger, Wisconsin (about 30km north of Milwaukee) on 20 July when a train operated by the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad collided with a...
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Huge fires, some burning for more than a week, seriously disrupted train operations in Washington state late in July. Both the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railways deployed special...
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Two coaches of a Sydney-bound interstate passenger train derailed between the Southern Cross and North Melbourne stations on 11 July, but nobody was hurt. The carriages reportedly remained upright but...
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