Derailed train
At least 16 injured after train derails in Boksburg
Paramedics said three carriages of the locomotive went off the track at the Elandsfontein Railway Station near Jet Park Road.
Officials are investigating the cause of the incident. The derailment has affected already revised operations for trains on the northern line.
It's affected already revised operations for trains on the northern line.
In the latest incident, in Cape Town, city officials are blaming vandalism on the central line after a train came off the tracks last night.
It’s understood five wagons on the goods train came off the tracks earlier this evening.
Five people were injured when the passenger train travelling from JHB to CT derailed.
A train derailed and crashed into a stationary train between the crown and Booysens stations leaving hundreds injured. Picture: Emily Corke/EWN.
There are reports that 50 others were injured when a train derailed in northern India.
The accident took place in Raigad district, around 100km south of India’s financial capital Mumbai.
The train derailed this morning near Elandsfontein station while en route from PTA to JHB.