Rail safety regulator bans manual signal changes
10 January 2018
Cape Town - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is banned from manually authorising trains following another train accident, this time in Germiston, the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) said on Wednesday.
"PRASA is, therefore, prohibited from manually authorising trains until such a time that normal train services are restored or until such a time when PRASA Rail can provide the RSR with a comprehensive and convincing action plan for all affected areas in all the provinces where Metrorail trains operate," the regulator stated.
Failure to comply will result in criminal charges and/or a penalty being imposed.
The prohibitive directive was issued in terms of section 36 of the National Railway Safety Regulator Act 16 of 2002 "for operating under conditions which are a threat or might be a threat to safe railway operations".