On 28 May 2013, a CSX freight train collided with a refuse truck on a crossing in Rosedale, Baltimore County, Maryland. The train derailed and there was a tremendous explosion, blowing apart nearby...
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During the first week of June, intimidation, violence and general lawlessness were targeted at Transnet workers who chose not to take part in strike action at Ngqura, organised by the National Union...
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Completion of Turkey's new 533km high-speed line linking Istanbul with Ankara, now due to open during June, has been delayed by several incidents and sabotage attempts including the theft of cables...
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Late on 5 June, according to the Irna news agency, a passenger train travelling from Tehran to Mashad in north-eastern Iran ran into a freight train near Damghan. Two fatalities were confirmed- the...
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In early June, a 134-wagon coal train travelling from Wyoming to Arkansas was brought to a halt near Willis in Brown County, Kansas, where 'extreme weather' included winds blowing at 160km/h....
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On 10 May, 10 wagons of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) derailed during shunting operations at a yard in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Six were empty but four were carrying hazardous liquids. One...
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On 27 May, 32 wagons out of 42 in a coal train on Mozambique's Sena Line derailed at Tchavundira in the Mutarara district of Mozambique's Tete province. The independent Maputo daily O Pais reported...
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Some idea of the problems facing Metrorail in Cape Town can be judged from the following official announcements on a typical day (Mon 2 June):
Metrorail Line Announcements:
For Monday Jun 2 2014...
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Catastrophic floods over much of the Balkan states late in May reportedly devastated railways in Bosnia. Srpske Republic Railways (ZRS) CEO Dragan Savanovic made an urgent appeal for help from the...
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On Sunday 25 May, a stolen car was abandoned on the railway near Berlin, Connecticut, where it was hit by an Amtrak passenger train travelling at about 60km/h. Nobody was injured and no rolling stock...
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