ANA reports that Metrorail said on Friday that it was still using a single line shuttle service from Elandsfontein to Kempton Park for the morning peak following a train crash on Thursday that left one person dead and 102 passengers injured.
A side train collision between the two trains occurred at Elandsfontein on Thursday morning. At the time, the trains were being manually authorised between Olifantsfontein and Elandsfontein due to theft of signalling power cables that occurred in the early hours of Thursday. The train crash has affected traffic on major routes along Elandsfontein and Germiston since Thursday. Metrorail spokesperson Tony Games indicated that their technical team was continuing to work hard around the clock with external service providers to recover normal train operations. Almost all injured passengers have been discharged from hospitals, except for two who were seriously injured. Games said they were still investigating the circumstances and the identity of the male person who died in the accident since he was inside an empty train that was not in service.
- Read this report in full at Engineering News
- Read too, Cable theft a contributor to Elandsfontein train crash, at The Citizen
- And also, Cable theft blamed for fatal train accident, at The Star
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