Claremont, Cape Town,
South Africa. Per
Wiki - "
Metrorail is an
operator of commuter rail services in the major urban areas of South Africa. It is a division of the
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (
PRASA), a state-owned enterprise which is responsible for most passenger rail services in South Africa. The Metrorail system consists of 471 stations, 2,228 kilometres (1,384 mi) of track, and carries an average of 1.7 million passengers per weekday.[1]
Metrorail was formed as a business unit of Transnet and was transferred to the
South African Rail Commuter Corporation (
SARCC), the predecessor of PRASA
. In the early
1990s Metrorail was placed under
Spoornet, another business unit of Transnet but on 1
January 1997, Metrorail became an independent business within Transnet and the Metrorail regions were formed. In
2006 Metrorail was transferred back into the SARCC; in 2008 the SARCC became PRASA.
Metrorail trains, as with the rest of the
South African rail network, run on 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Cape gauge track. Some routes run on track owned and operated by PRASA; other routes run on track operated by Transnet and also used for long-distance and freight trains.
Most Metrorail services are operated by
Electric Multiple Unit train sets of the type 5M2A. Since
1999, these trains are being refurbished.
Everything above the underframe is completely removed, and replaced by new, prefabricated wall and roof modules.[7] In
2007 alone more than
300 coaches were refurbished.[8]
The new trains are designated 10M3 (
Cape Town), 10M4 (
Gauteng) or 10M5 (
Durban).[9][10]
The Metrorail services on the
Eastern Cape are operated by four diesel trains, each consisting of ten coaches and a diesel locomotive.[11]
280 train sets operate on the system,[1] each able to carry up to 1800 passengers.[12]"
This footage was generously made for me by another great YouTuber,
http://www.youtube.com/user/HaligonianType1.
Thanks to him for the effort -I would never be able to get it first hand!
- published: 27 Jul 2013
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