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Kinki Sharyo #6057
16 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Nady Al-Zubbat. After failed negotiations between Dave and a CTA representative about letting us into the depot, we asked our driver to deposit us in Heliopolis in order to take our first pictures of the capital's trams. And here a few words of explanation are in order: Heliopolis is a city founded by Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain - a Belgian magnate, whom we would today call a developer. The good Baron bought around 25 sq km east of Cairo and connected them with a suburban tram to the city centre (of course the track gauge was 1000mm just like the Vicinales of his native Belgium). Here he started building luxury residences, a gigantic hotel (today it is the presidential palace) and a leisure park. Heliopolis is criss-crossed by such wide avenues with trams running in the median strip. Here is our first picture of a Cairo tram.
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