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Kinki Sharyo #185
20 february 2010 - Alexandria, Mustafa Kamel depot. Apologies for the pantograph, but the light... I couldn't resist.
Kinki Sharyo #172
20 february 2010 - Alexandria, Mustafa Kamel depot. Deeper in the depot building we found a car on jacks. As you can see the floor of the depot looks like a farmyard soaked with oil.
Kinki Sharyo #166
20 february 2010 - Alexandria, Mustafa Kamel depot. And back to looking at Alexandria depots - now we're in the Ramleh lines depot. Because Egypt is a rather warm country, the depots are rather dark on the inside - thanks to which there are dramatic light conditions inside.
Kinki Sharyo Alexandria #1108
19 february 2010 - Alexandria, Karmuz depot. Alexandria has two tram networks. One of them, called Ramleh lines, is basically one line that runs along the coast. The other (Medina) is the rest of the city tram network. On the Ramleh lines trams use normal pantographs, on the Medina line they still have trolley poles. Two routes (25 and 36) run on both networks - for these APTA rebuilt some Kinki Sharyo cars by adding pantographs.
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Kinki Sharyo Alexandria #1107
19 february 2010 - Aleksandria, zajezdnia Karmuz. A tak wygląda pulpit tramwaju Kinki Sharyo – wagony z Kairu wyglądają podobnie. Po lewej strony nastawnik (korbę zdjęto), po prawej hamulec na sprężone powietrze (również bez korbki). Cztery guziki na dole to otwieranie i zamykanie drzwi po obu stronach, a poniżej (poza kadrem) mamy pedał czuwaka i dzwonka. Proste, prawda?
Kinki Sharyo #929
18 february 2010 - Cairo. Where? Well, that's a good question. Openstreetmap quotes the name of the street as Al-Montazah, Google as El Shaheed Loaa Mahmoud Adel, whereas a map created in 2000 probably for Blickpunkt Strassenbahn shows the terminus as Midan Alf Maskan. Sod this. Let's wave goodbye to Cairo, the next pictures will be from Alexandria!
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 10
Kinki Sharyo #1028
18 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Roxy. A pretty full two-car tram prepares to enter the final section of its journey to Ramses square, which is on totally segregated track.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 4
Kinki Sharyo #1030
18 february 2010 - Cairo, El Nouzha. A Heliopolis Metro tram has just arrived at this terminus, whereas a route 32 car on the right is departing towards Midan Al-Sayyid Al-Mirghani. You can see the subtle differences between the exterior appearance of the "metro" and "city" cars.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 2
Kinki Sharyo #6068
18 february 2010 - Cairo, outside Port Said depot. Cars 6068+6067 have just traversed the 2km-long service track between El Matariya and the depot, and are now at the depot gates. As a CTA worker met outside the depot said, the great Port Said depot (see satellite picture) only runs around 17 trams a day - which works out to 1-2 per route. And - sadly - the cars do tend appear at the stops in rather irregular intervals. Also, despite there being quite a few passengers riding in them, buses running on parallel routes appear far more crowded.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 2
Kinki Sharyo #6029
17 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Ismaillia. And a close-up of the coupling between the two cars. What is interesting is that despite a complete lack of chains or anything like that between the two cars we did not see anyone who fancied a free ride between the cars. This is probably down to two things - the completely horrible state of the tracks and the fact, that the trams run through a rather affluent part of the city, whose inhabitants don't feel the need to risk their lives to save 50 piastre (6p) for the ticket...
Comments: 8
Kinki Sharyo #6029
17 july 2010 - Cairo, Midan Ismaillia. A route 5 tram (El Matariya - Midan Ismaillia - the shortest in Cairo) has just arrived at the terminus. The new trackbed suggests a reactivation of the curve connecting the no. 5 on Omar Ibn El Khatab street with Osman Ibn Afan street where a route of the Heliopolis Metro runs. However, given the state and the perspectives of the Cairo network, this is a step towards the rationalisation of the network when further sections of it will be taken out of use.
Kinki Sharyo #6067
17 february 2010 - Cairo, King Hussain Bin Talal square. A group of strangely acting tourists takes pictures of a route 33 tram and of the pointsman at the junction, who resides in his little hut by the junction and takes his naps on a Tatra K5AR seat. That was probably the only trace of the tatras we could see in all of Cairo.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 9
Kinki Sharyo #825
17 february 2010 - Cairo, El Nozha. As part of the "powdering the dead guy" exercise, some vehicles running between Heliopolis and Ramses Square have been repainted in CTA livery. Sadly - the interiors of the vehicles are still in a terrible condition as David's photos show.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 7
Kinki Sharyo #6006
17 february 2010 - Helwan, terminus El Tabbin. As you can see by the positioning of the vehicle, the tracks in Helwan haven't seen a tampering machine since they were built in 1981. We are standing near the Nile, next to a metallurgical institute - the tram probably used to carry many of its workers. Sadly, I don't know what we did to piss off the crew of the tram, but they left before we had a chance to take pictures of the tram and jump back on board for the return journey. We did the three kilometres back to the depot on foot. Of course with the exception of Dave, who always does his own thing...
Comments: 2
Kinki Sharyo #6006
17 february 2010 - Helwan, El Sarf El Sehy. As we were the only passengers on board car number 6006, we asked the crew to stop for photos a few times along the way. Here the tram has already left the centre of Helwan and has stopped next to the depot gates, located amongst fields.
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Kinki Sharyo #6006
17 february 2010 - Helwan, Emtedad Atef El Barquqi. There is a vegetable and fruit market on this street, alongside the tracks. As the frequency of the tram is defined by a complex interaction of prayer times, accidents, vehicle condition and - last but not least - the mood of the drivers, the rubbish from the market is thrown straight onto the tracks. On this momentous occasion of a tram passing along the street, some workers got to work shovelling the rubbish from the tracks to let the tram get through. I'd rather not mention the smell... All in all, if you ever wondered what hell for trams looks like - it is in Helwan...
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