DERAILMENT AT LAGOS

Worse than usual traffic problems in Lagos due to fuel shortage resulted in seriously overcrowded commuter trains. The situation was aggravated on 5 March when a passenger set derailed at Ikeja. The...

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TFR ACCIDENT COSTS

According to statistics sourced by Rapport from South Africa's Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), the cost of Transnet Freight Rail accidents during the past five years worked out as follows: (R...

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TRAGIC EAST RAND FATALITIES

During the morning peak hour on 4 March 2014, two scholars aged 15 and 15 alighted from a train near Boksburg at Dunswart station, 13km east of Germiston. Instead of using the footbridge, it appears...

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MUMBAI FIRE DISRUPTS TRAINS

A massive fire on 23 February gutted a tyre manufacturing unit alongside Nahur suburban railway station near Bhandup in north-eastern Mumbai and disrupted train services. Electricity supply to Nahur...

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SCARF CAUGHT IN LONDON TUBE TRAIN DOOR

Britain's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into the circumstances of an incident at Holborn station on the London Underground's Piccadilly Line. A woman moving towards a train she...

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TRAIN KILLS FILM TEAM MEMBER

On 20 February, during the filming of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider, camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed by a train on a trestle over the Altamaha River near the Doctortown Road crossing...

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DERAILMENT SPILLS 3,500 LITRES OF DIESEL

In the last week of February, a shunting locomotive on a siding side-swiped a Canadian National freight train on the main line at St Henri, a district of Montreal. Two locomotives and two wagons...

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OZ TRUCK INTO TRAIN KILLED A PASSENGER

A 71-year-old Melbourne truck driver has been charged with 44 offences after crashing through level crossing booms, derailing a commuter train and killing a passenger. Fourteen others were injured. He...

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MUSEUM FIRE AT GEORGE

From Allen Duff: 'A swing-door suburban coach and dining-car 246 Khubusi have been staged adjacent to the George Museum in central George for the last 15-odd years. They served as a restaurant and/or...

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57,000 PASSENGERS DISRUPTED IN ONE DAY

During the morning peak hour on 28 February, a breakdown stalled a train travelling from western Taiwan's Changhua County to Hualien County in the east. Between the stations of Zhongli and Puxin, a...

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