The rail bridge over the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Missouri, is closed as a result of 'about 30 barges' breaking free from their tug and smashing into the supporting piers. At the time of...
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On 5 May, a number of loaded ore wagons derailed on the Sishen-Saldanha line near Moravia, spilling their loads and ripping up a lengthy section of track....
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Nathan Berelowitz reports that some 140 steel sleepers were stolen on the Cullinan line. The weekend passenger excursion scheduled by Friends of the Rail could get no further than Rayton junction on...
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Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) carried out a number of activities on 9 May as its contribution towards observing International Level Crossing Awareness day, which fell on the seventh. TFR says it will be...
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Nearly 300 people were evacuated from their homes after a 13-wagon train carrying 'highly toxic' chemicals from Holland derailed near Ghent, with one fatality and 17 people hurt. It is understood that...
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At about 18:00 on 28 April, a passenger train derailed near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border in Canada. It was bound for Churchill, Manitoba when it left the rails at Togo, Saskatchewan 383km east of...
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According to findings by the US Federal Department of Transportation, a broken rail caused the 2 February derailment of eight out of 105 wagons in a Hamlet-Wilmington freight train at Bladenboro,...
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On 29 April, at about 09:45 during shunting operations at Trichardt station, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) yard employee Ayanda Dlamini was fatally injured. Apparently three tankcars had been shunted...
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A man accused of raping and strangling a 47-year-old Transnet Freight Rail driver at Makhado (Louis Trichardt) in June 2012 appeared in the local magistrate's court on 3 May. He had been arrested in...
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On 27 April, a locomotive hauling a TPO (travelling post office) van derailed on trap points as it attempted to enter the main-line from a siding. The incident took place on the Great Central Railway...
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