A 27-year-old man who had been walking on the line near Marietta Square in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, was hit him from behind by a CSX train on 7 January. He was taken to hospital but died of his...
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In the early hours of 15 January, a military train carrying young recruits to an army camp derailed in the Giza neighbourhood of Badrashinthe, a suburb of Cairo. At least 19 people were reported dead...
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Four people were reported dead on 16 January in a collision between a train and a taxi. According to the Middle East News Agency, the movement of trains in Upper Egypt was disrupted for some time....
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Train services in and out of Victoria, a major London terminus, were disrupted on 17 January when fire broke out on an incoming Gatwick Express set. For a brief period the entire station was...
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It was reported on 10 January that 17 people were hurt when a locomotive derailed, causing two passenger trains to collide near Neuhausen in Northern Switzerland. Rail accidents in Switzerland are...
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On 30 December, a passenger train killed five elephants when it ran into a herd in the Rambha forest area, about 180km south of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state in eastern India. Conservation...
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Via Train 2, The Canadian, left Vancouver right time at 20:30 on 25 December, bound for Toronto with 200 passengers and a crew of 13. At about 05:00 on 29 December, the train was halted near Parry...
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Metrorail driver J P du Plessis, 58, was found dead in the cab of an empty commuter set near Hercules station, Pretoria, on Christmas Day. He had multiple stab wounds and is thought to have been...
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Hennie Heymans on sar-L, 31 December 2012:
'My friend Oom Gert (87) recently went down to Cape Town in the Orange Express from Bloemfontein to Cape Town. On the way down to Cape Town the train broke...
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At about 03:00 on 11 December, the two class 37 diesel-electric locomotives hauling a Transnet Freight Rail train carrying timber from Durban Bayhead to Umkomaas fell into the lagoon at Amanzimtoti...
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