Train crash causes delay on Mabopane line

[cavedog]

Just a week after the new trains began operating in the Mabopane corridor in Tshwane, one car unit rolled into another as technicians were trying to attend to a problem on Monday morning.

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Train crash causes delay on Mabopane line

Just a week after the new trains began operating in the Mabopane corridor, in Tshwane, one car unit rolled into another as technicians were trying to attend to a problem on Monday morning.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

 

[ENIAC]

Nahh this is just how all new trains look in SA #fakenews

 

[ponder]

 

[RedViking]

Saw it in another thread here as well, related or this just another one?

Incompetent fools.

R130 million wasted on trains that have to run on damaged rails

R130 million wasted on trains that have to run on damaged rails The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) signed a R130-million deal to lease locomotives for long-distance trips on its Shosholoza Meyl trains despite warnings that the railway infrastructure on which they would run was...

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[cavedog]

Saw it in another thread here as well, related or this just another one?

Incompetent fools.

R130 million wasted on trains that have to run on damaged rails

R130 million wasted on trains that have to run on damaged rails The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) signed a R130-million deal to lease locomotives for long-distance trips on its Shosholoza Meyl trains despite warnings that the railway infrastructure on which they would run was...

mybroadband.co.za

Related. Mods can merge or not but this is not related to that original thread so didn't want to derail the thread so to speak.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

We still have working rail lines left....??

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

We still have working rail lines left....??

this was my question as well, I mean weren't they all vandalized and stripped to pieces,
and all there is is a minibus taxi with "train" printed on the side...

 

[RedViking]

Related. Mods can merge or not but this is not related to that original thread so didn't want to derail the thread so to speak.

Really amazing how quickly they can muck things up. Accidents do happen, but what are the chances.

 

[Flanders]

Strap a Ses'fikile bumper on that and good to go

 

[The_MAC]

Trial and error is the methodology of choice

 

[Stokstert]

30%ers at work, what do people expect?

 

[Oldfut]

Dunning Kruger meets cargo cult.

 

[Gordon_R]

Dunning Kruger meets cargo cult.

That should be the go-to statement for many threads in MyBB, equivalent to TIA (which is a rather confusing acronym).