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Rail workers thwarted an attempt to destroy safety equipment on a fourth line in what France's national state-owned railway company, SNCF rail company.
Authorities in India are investigation how a freight train with around 50 carriages, loaded with gravel, travelled for 70 kilometres without a driver.
While investigations are under way into the cause of a train collision in KwaZulu-Natal, experts believe the latest incident is indicative of the poor state of South Africa’s rail services.
Passengers travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town aboard Shosholoza Meyl had to travel the rest of their trip by bus due to infrastructure challenges on the railway tracks.
India's Railway Minister said the cause and people responsible for the country's worst train crash in decades had been identified.
A new, semi-high-speed train built in India is showcased as evidence of this modernisation, with Modi himself flagging off the first journeys of many of the trains around the country. But Friday's crash has come as a jolt to this makeover, experts said.
Coal and ore exporters unable to take advantage of commodities boom.