OIL TRAIN COLLIDES, DERAILS, EXPLODES

Residents of Casselton, a small town in North Dakota, were advised to evacuate their homes on Monday 30 December following a collision between two freight trains. One of the consists, more than 100...

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METRORAIL DERAILMENT ELANDSFONTEIN

On 3 January, Metrorail train 0610 to Johannesburg from Pretoria derailed between the Elandsfontein and Isando stations at about 06:45, near O R Tambo International Airport. The leading motor coach...

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COLLISION AT DURBAN'S BEREA RD: 11 HURT

On 27 December, 11 people were reported hurt in a collision between two Metrorail suburban trains at Durban's central city Berea Road station. Paramedics who attended said one of the 11 people taken...

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DERAILMENT CLOSES LIMPOPO LINE

On 5 January, 20 of the 28 wagons in a Maputo-bound train carrying export sugar from Zimbabwe derailed between Chokwe and Mabalane in Mozambique's Gaza province, 272km north of the port. Twelve...

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TRAIN FIRE IN INDIA: 26 DIE

On 28 December, fire reportedly “engulfed” one coach of an express passenger train near Kothacheruvu, about 155km north of Bangalore, India. There were 67 people in the vehicle, of whom 26 were burned...

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SUICIDE BOMBER HITS RUSSIAN STN

On 30 December, a suicide bomber identified (after her head was recovered) as Oksana Aslanova detonated a device at Volgograd station in Russia, killing 15 people and injuring about 34, eight...

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HUNDREDS EVACUATED AFTER OHIO OIL SPILL

On 27 November, four loaded tankcars derailed during a shunting move in a CSX yard at Willard, Ohio. 'About half' one wagon's 117,000 litre load of styrene monomer spilled. The adjacent wagon also...

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AMTRAK'S CRESCENT DERAILS

On a very cold 25 November, seven of the nine coaches in a New York-bound Amtrak Crescent express left the track in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, soon after midnight. The two locomotives...

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COSTLY DERAILMENT AT FISANTEKRAAL

The derailment of a loaded coal train at Fisantekraal, 39km from Cape Town on the branch from Kraaifontein to Malmesbury, badly damaged concrete pillars supporting the R312 bridge over the line,...

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CABLE THEFT ARRESTS

A continuing epidemic of cable thievery has the public asking repeatedly ' why don't they go for the scrap metal merchants, who must surely be receiving and paying for the copper? How right they have...

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