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At Frankfurt airport, 570 of the 1,047 scheduled arrivals and departures were cancelled, while 254 flights were scratched at Munich airport and a smaller airport in the southern city of ...
Initially, Metrorail was an operating unit of Spoornet, Transnet's rail subsidiary; in 1996 it became a separate business unit of Transnet. Long-distance passenger rail services, meanwhile, were operated by Spoornet (now Transnet Freight Rail) under the name Shosholoza Meyl.
LNER has also cancelled and altered some of its services from London King's Cross station for tomorrow due to a shortage of train crew. ‘Our plans are ruined' 05:30 , Stephanie Cockroft
"The wrong type of snow" or "the wrong kind of snow" is a phrase coined by the British media in 1991 after severe weather caused disruption to many of British Rail's services. A British Rail press release stated that the disruptions were due to the wrong type of snow on the line, and the media ridiculed this explanation and expressed scepticism ...
Shadow transport minister Stephen Morgan said: “In the five years since the Government first admitted that reform of our railways was needed, passenger services have gone from bad to worse, with ...
From 1948 to 1963, it served as the Blue Train spare and during this time- in October 1957- it was renumbered no. 795. From 1961 to 1963, this car actually worked on the Trans-Karroo Express while remaining a spare Blue Train duty. In 1963, the Blue Train was provided with two new lounge cars, thus releasing the old ones including spare No. 795.
Due to the way Sundays work in the rail world, train services can often be without a reliable force to operate trains on weekends, around Christmas and the New Year, or during special events.
On January 19, 2007, one train derailed near Wasserausen. [13] In 2018, one train from the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line derailed in the Simmental region, injuring eight people. [13] On March 31, 2023, two trains derailed in the Canton of Bern due to strong winds, with fifteen people injured. [14]