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Engineering News reports that the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) was due to start trial operations on the Cape Town to Langa via Mutual station route, the Cape Town to Langa via Pinelands station route, and the Bellville to Ysterplaat via Lavistown station route, on the Central line corridor in the Western Cape, on Tuesday, 26 July.
The trial operations will determine the state of readiness to resume commuter services on the corridor. This service recovery forms part of Phase 1 of the Central line recovery programme. The Central line was closed in 2019 owing to theft and vandalism. Subsequent recovery work on the corridor was also hampered by illegal occupations on the rail network during the Level 5 lockdown amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Prasa said that the resumption of the service on the lines would be a major milestone given the difficulties experienced with the relocation of households on the rail reserve, as well as the constant attacks by criminal syndicates on security personnel. To resume this service, Prasa has had to rebuild the infrastructure from the ground up. “To safeguard the rail infrastructure, Prasa has increased security on the ground for the safety of our commuters and staff. We have also installed anti-vandalism and antitheft technology to mitigate against future theft and vandalism,” the agency advised.
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