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Kinki Sharyo #6133
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Uploaded: 2012-01-11 21:18:44
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17 february 2010 - Helwan (EG) - Omar Ibn Abd El Aziz street. A few more pictures of the amazing Helwan tramway. It is being said that this line stopped running after the Egyptian revolution in summer 2011, and may have closed down – does anyone know the true position? As we only discovered if it was still operating in February 2010 (even senior CTA managers in Cairo didn’t really know), it is clear that you will only find out by actually going there. Even then, we walked the derelict tracks for over 1km until we found one working tram. This is the junction between the ‘main line’ (joke) and branches to the railway station and university, one of which was built but never opened and the other is partly abandoned. Note the Arabic ‘tram stop’ sign with ‘ARRET’ in French underneath.
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- dvigar (*.as13285.net) (2012-01-13 17:25:14.196249)
I just heard that this system almost certainly closed down at the time of the 2011 uprising and is very unlikely to ever run again. Farewell, Helwan!
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