Passing through Charlestown station, Transnet Freight Rail chief investigator T N Govender noticed that a number of overhead traction masts were missing. On closer inspection he found that some 30...
Read More
Read More
Six people were killed when eight wagons of a freight train ran off the line in a remote swampy area in south-eastern Mexico on 25 August. The cause of the accident is still to be determined, but...
Read More
Read More
On 29 August, the Canadian Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Railroad Safety Advisory
Committee (RSAC) held an emergency session 'to begin considering' additional regulatory or other safety...
Read More
Read More
August was one the wettest in Cape Town in many years. Several low-lying parts of the city were reportedly under water on 28 August, a day when continual rain raised the water table substantially. The...
Read More
Read More
Fourteen people were reported hurt, three seriously, in a collision between an Egyptian train and a tourist bus on 28 August. The accident occurred at Kafr al-Sheikh in Tnata. Press reports said...
Read More
Read More
On 26 August, a commuter train ran at speed into a vehicle on a level crossing at Scherbinka, a suburb of Moscow. The driver of the car was not killed but was said to be in a coma. The authorities...
Read More
Read More
From September, Via Rail Canada is to suspend passenger service between Matapédia, New Carlisle and Gaspé in eastern Quebec die to 'infrastructure problems' on a short line, Société du chemin de fer...
Read More
Read More
Late on 23 August, an Amtrak passenger train derailed on Union Pacific tracks in downtown San Antonio, Texas. There were no injuries. Amtrak declined to provide further detail to the press. City...
Read More
Read More
Part of a $47 million Federal Transit Administration-funded project to renew five stations along New York City's M Line, repairs to the Central Avenue M subway station on the Myrtle Avenue Line have...
Read More
Read More
On 16 July, a Union Pacific freight train derailed in the yard at Hays, a city in Kansas. Six of the affected wagons were conveying timber products, three contained beer and one poultry meal. Part of...
Read More
Read More