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Kinki Sharyo #1012
17 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Ramsis. We are now at Cairo's main public transport hub - we've got the central Ramses railway station, both metro lines and the terminus of the Empain-built tram line to Heliopolis. The route runs from here towards the north-east on a fully segregated alignment till Midan Roxy, where it joins the road network running in the middle of dual carriageways. Despite the tracks being absolutely catastrophic, the trams can still manage around 40km/h on a good day, and with a little good will and money this could be a great start of a Stadtbahn-type network. Even the natives refer to this line as metro. Sadly, according to our source at the CTA, upon the opening of the 'real' metro line 3, the Cairo trams are to disappear...
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
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Hitachi / SEMAF #4261
16 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Al-Sayyid Al-Mirghani. Cairo used to have two tram networks and a trolleybus network. The city centre network used to belong to the CTA, whereas the network in Heliopolis was managed by the company formed by Baron Empain. Somewhere along the way the CTA took over the entire network, but the differences in vehicle types are easily seen. This is probably one of the newest tram vehicles in Cairo - a result of the cooperation between Toshiba and Hitachi - as it rumbles past a square in Heliopolis.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
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