Around 14 km of the 15-km-long tunnel of the multibillion-rand Gautrain rapid rail project has been completed.
The underground route of the Gautrain stretches from Johannesburg’s Park station to Parktown Ridge and on to Rosebank, Sandton, to where it surfaces at the Marlboro portal.
Construction of the train depot facilities, including the train system administration buildings and operations control centre, located in Midrand, is also complete.
This centre will be the heartbeat of the Gautrain, from where signalling, telecommunications, automatic fare collection, traction power and overhead distribution will be managed.
The Gautrain, which government esti- mates will carry 300 000 passengers a day by 2011, will see a minimum of six trains an hour running in peak times between Johannesburg, Tshwane and OR Tambo International Airport by 2011.
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