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On the 30 August 2024, Attorney Jonty Cogger asked the Cape High Court to instruct the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to return the building material confiscated from thirty-eight people who had been living on land along Old Marine Drive on the Cape Town Foreshore. [23]
It operates various train routes across South Africa, [1] carrying approximately 4 million passengers annually. [2] Before 2009, Shosholoza Meyl was a division of Spoornet, but it was transferred after the formation of PRASA. "Shosholoza" is the name of a popular South African song about workers on a train and it therefore means moving forward ...
A Metrorail X'Trapolis Mega train running forward to Kalk Bay station south of Cape Town. 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 ...
Cape Town's first railway station, circa 1870. The first railway station in Cape Town was a rudimentary wooden structure built in 1861, and was located on the site of the present Golden Acre shopping centre. Cape Town's railways were in their infancy and the early station was small and simple. [2]
In late November 2014, the first of an intended twenty new Class Afro 4000 diesel-electric locomotives for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) came ashore in Table Bay Harbour. The locomotive, the first new engine to be acquired by PRASA since its establishment, was officially unveiled at Cape Town Station on 1 December 2014. [1 ...
Metrorail Eastern Cape is the name given to the commuter rail services operated by Metrorail, a division of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. There are two lines, one connecting Port Elizabeth , Despatch and Uitenhage , and the other connecting East London , Mdantsane and Berlin .
The Central Line is a commuter rail service in Cape Town, South Africa, operated by Metrorail Western Cape.Central Line services operate along two routes from central Cape Town to Langa, and then along three branches from Langa to various areas in the south-east of the city.
Bellville mainline railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It is the second-biggest station in the Metrorail Western Cape railway network, after the Cape Town terminus. All trains on Metrorail's Northern Line pass through Bellville, and one branch of the Central Line also terminates there.