After a long wait, commuters will at last be able to use a train from Nyanga to Cape Town on Monday:
Maseko said tests on the Central Line had taken months. The line had been tested, using old yellow trains, before the new blue trains were allowed to run on the line. The final tests with the new blue trains were nearly complete.
“Today is the last day of the test. We have brought in the railway safety regulator to have a look at the rehabilitated network and rehabilitated stations. So we hope by Friday we get the go-ahead, so that on Monday trains can start operating.” He said trains would not stop at Netreg because of serious damage to the station. “At Netreg there is structural damage. In other stations we had only damage such as lighting, water in toilets and copper pipes which we have been replacing. Netreg is a different story. We are fixing everything from scratch.”
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