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Railway Employs Baboon | Tales From the Bottle

Qxir | December 23, 2025

All this little monkey was missing was corduroy britches. “Jack was the pet and assistant of double leg amputee signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town–Port Elizabeth Railway service. James “Jumper” Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both […]

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Did This Train Driver Deserve the Death Penalty? | Last Moments

Qxir | March 29, 2025

This train driver’s carelessness cost many lives, but did he deserve the death penalty? “In the early morning of 27 February 2019, in Cairo’s main train station, Ramses Station, a locomotive hit the buffers at the end of the track at platform 6 at high speed, causing an explosion that […]