South Africa Unveils New Train Model, To Run By 2015


VENTURES AFRICA – New set of ultra-modern blue and silver trains will soon hit the South African railway tracks to replace the ageing Metrorail fleet by the end of 2015, the Passenger Rail Association of SA (PRASA) has confirmed. The association also has plans to introduce a 1,025 seating capacity Business Express Train.

With accessories such as air-conditioning, closed-circuit television CCTV cameras to assure passengers’ safety, automated doors, an on-board communication system and Wi-Fi connectivity services to make travelling an equally good experience as the Business Express trains; the new sleek-nosed train might just be the answer to the long-wait of waiting for trains as it will be available in a frequency of two to three minutes during peak-hours and seven minutes during off-peak hours by 2015.

Does that affects/concerns me in Nigeria?

But I am looking at relocating to South Africa

very well. This is what nigeria also need to be targeting not all those glorify molue we called train.

Just wait for our LOKOmotives to arrive. It will have not only wifi but Bluetooth and xrays plus ultrasound.

zig2ryme04: Does that affects/concerns me in Nigeria?

Well as the giant of africa you need to know how far others have gone in the continent

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God of heaven may i experience speed train in Nigeria in my life time in Jesus name. I have seen it all over Europe why should my home country be different. If its a curse its broken

Nice one there @Tim107.....

tim107:

Hmmm...South has gone to an xtra Level.

Built2last: God of heaven may i experience speed train in Nigeria in my life time in Jesus name. I have seen it all over Europe why should my home country be different. If its a curse its broken

don't worry you will

ba7man: Nice one there @Tim107.....

thanks my broda!

Lagos to abuja and other rail lines which its feasibility study is ongoing is meant and going to be a speed trains!

So even though SA is ahead we are coming up!

If the past has done what GEJ is doing now in the railways then by now he should be building fast train system and not reactivated decades of broken down ones!

OP,


That is not a train, it called metro/ tram.

billante: Lagos to abuja and other rail lines which its feasibility study is ongoing is meant and going to be a speed trains!

So even though SA is ahead we are coming up!

If the past has done what GEJ is doing now in the railways then by now he should be building fast train system and not reactivated decades of broken down ones!

I'm sorry, GEJ can't do the job! It's high time we tried competent hands.

Prof Corruption:

I'm sorry, GEJ can't do the job! It's high time we tried competent hands.

You tried Buhari, Abacha, IBB, Shagari, Obasanjo, YarAdua: what did they do

Keep making noise and don't show appreciation.

Prof Corruption:

I'm sorry, GEJ can't do the job! It's high time we tried competent hands.

How long does it take to build a standard High speed rail?

The trains will be manufactured in South Africa by South Africans

Why don't Nigeria buy good train from South Africa rather than India and China?

Our leaders una dey travel well well. Una nor dey see dis type?

why cant we have this in nigeria? why cant we have sub stations and tube trains like the rest of the world? our leaders see this things, why cant this country copy the basic good things from other nations.......

billante: Lagos to abuja and other rail lines which its feasibility study is ongoing is meant and going to be a speed trains!

So even though SA is ahead we are coming up!

If the past has done what GEJ is doing now in the railways then by now he should be building fast train system and not reactivated decades of broken down ones!

On no account will I vote PDP for anything in 2015,they've stolen enough.am voting other alternatives,let see what they too have for us.

Fresh Air Don Enter Southy!??

addictiv: why cant we have this in nigeria? why cant we have sub stations and tube trains like the rest of the world? our leaders see this things, why cant this country copy the basic good things from other nations.......

dumboo, what about the onesthat are ccurrently under construction.. both in lag and abj? Mumu

billante: Lagos to abuja and other rail lines which its feasibility study is ongoing is meant and going to be a speed trains!

So even though SA is ahead we are coming up!

If the past has done what GEJ is doing now in the railways then by now he should be building fast train system and not reactivated decades of broken down ones!

it's not speed train it just standard guage!