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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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