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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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