At about 17:00 on 12 July, train 2249 ex Polokwane to Tzaneen derailed at km77. Two class 34 diesel locos and 18 tankcars left the line. The driver, who reportedly sustained a badly hurt foot, was...
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On 12 July, a passenger express from Paris to Limoges, about 400km, was some 20 minutes into the three-hour journey when the third and fourth coaches left the rails while passing through the station...
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On 6 July, a train of 72 tankcars became detached from five unattended stationary locomotives and ran away gathering speed downgrade for some 11km before derailing at a track junction in downtown Lac...
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Fire mid-morning on board a wagon conveying propane in a freight train of the Norfolk Southern Railway disrupted rail operations west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on 2 July. Amtrak Keystone passenger...
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On 30 November 2012, a southbound freight train with 84 wagons ran onto the Jefferson Street swing bridge in Paulsboro, New Jersey, allegedly passing a red signal. This aspect was displayed apparently...
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The Kano-Lagos passenger train derailed in Kaku on the outskirts of Kaduna during the first week of July. A number of passengers were injured and taken to hospital. According to the Nigerian Railway...
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The biggest advantage of not privatising a railway is that one always knows who to blame ' the government. In Britain's convoluted passenger rail set-up, there's always someone else to blame. The...
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In the aftermath of the 28 May derailment of 65 wagons in a CSX freight train near Baltimore and the resultant explosion, the driver of the refuse truck that ran into the train has been charged with:...
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The department of South Africa's Rail Safety Regulator (RSR) is now divided into five regions; Gauteng, Nelspruit, Durban, Port Elizabeth Western and Northern Cape. This arrangement facilitates...
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Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) conducted a joint safety community awareness campaign involving the railway police together with the company's security and risk departments in Georgedale on 8 June 2013....
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