An investigation at federal level followed an incident in Chicago on 6 February when a peak-hour commuter train ran 'at express speed' from Union station with one of the passenger doors open....
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On Friday evening 8 February, New York's Metro-North Railroad suspended train service on the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines because of the accelerating severity of a massive storm, as well as...
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A station massively overcrowded with Hindu pilgrims on 10 February degenerated into a stampede situation in which at least 36 people lost their lives, and 30 were taken to hospital in Allahabad. One...
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At about 01:00 on 3 February, a Union Pacific coal train headed for St Louis was involved in a serious derailment at a point south-east of Fairbury, Nebraska. Nobody was injured, but no less than 41...
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On 31 January, two Metrorail commuter trains were set alight at Durban's KwaMnyandu station. Officials told the press they estimated the damage at R40 million. Sapa quoted Metrorail's Thandi Mkhize...
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On 1 February, the Nachicuva River in Northern Mozambique burst its banks at Monapo, resulting in a crater about 70 metres long and 35 metres deep, with the railway hanging in mid-air after the...
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On 6 December 2012, the police at Dunnottar, south-east of Johannesburg, arrested five people found in possession of cable identified as the property of Transnet. Solomon Mthembu, Albert Sambo, Vasco...
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At 13:45 on 7 February, 29 people were reported injured when a train entering the main station at East London was incorrectly routed onto a platform line already occupied by a train with passengers...
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Recurrent power problems at the end of January on Brisbane's Cleveland commuter line in Australia's Queensland may have had something to with a strange derailment in the new terminal station. The...
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On 26 January, an Amtrak passenger train was delayed almost an hour near the Cornwells Heights station in Pennsylvania after an unidentified large object struck the locomotive. Not knowing what they...
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