NEW: Investigation is derailed as Prasa’s new trains only ‘speak’ Spanish

The Passenger Rail Agency of SA's new Afro 4000 locomotives only speak Spanish, which is hampering an investigation into the accident involving a Shosholoza Meyl train.

The probe by the Railway Safety Regulator into derailment of the 11-carriage train, which was pulled by one of the controversial new locomotives, two weeks ago in the Northern Cape, has had to rely on information from sources other than the train’s data because of the language issue.

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