Moneyweb reports that the Gautrain Management Agency is planning to spend up to R2 billion to acquire second hand additional rolling stock from the United Kingdom to deal with the capacity constraints on the high-speed train network.
Chief Executive Jack van der Merwe announced this week that a team had just returned from the UK where they identified three rolling stock companies they were presently negotiating with. Speaking at the Southern African Transport Conference, Van der Merwe said the agency was looking at bringing in between 18 and 35 coaches for the Gautrain. They will probably arrive in SA within the next 18 months. Loan funding for the acquisition of rolling stock has been obtained from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). “We are going to run the new additional rolling stock from the airport on the east-west line and then all the existing trains will run on the north-south line,” Van der Merwe indicated. He also provided an update of Gautrain 2, the next phase of the project. The planned network for Gautrain 2 is from Mamelodi in the east of Pretoria to Jabulani in the west of Soweto, from Lanseria to Little Falls and Cosmo into Randburg and Marlboro, and from OR Tambo International Airport to Boksburg.
- Rea the full original of Roy Cokayne’s report on the above at Moneyweb
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