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GroundUp reports that after a long wait, commuters will at last be able to use a train from Nyanga to Cape Town on Monday, when the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) resumes service on part of the Central Line.
The new blue trains will run from Nyanga to Maitland and back, and commuters wishing to go to Cape Town will have to change trains at Maitland. The trains will stop at all stations on the way to Maitland except Netreg, where extensive damage to the station still has to be repaired. A new blue train was tested on the route on Wednesday. Regional engineering manager Raymond Maseko advised that for now the train would not run all the way to Cape Town as final repairs were necessary to the line between Woodstock and Cape Town to prepare for the extra load. “Once that section is fixed we will then be able to run all the trains all the way to Cape Town,” he indicated. “After Nyanga the next line we are opening is the Northern Line, from Eerste River to Strand, and from Eerste River to Muldersvlei,” Maseko said. A limited service has been running between Eerste River and Bellville since January. Except for a brief period, the Central line has been suspended since 2018 and completely closed since October 2019. This was the busiest line in Cape Town, serving the poorest communities, and used to serve Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tariro Washinyira at GroundUp
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