Metrorail working to fix Elandsfontein route after train crash
Metrorail said on Friday that it was still using a single line shuttle service from Elandsfontein to Kempton Park for the morning peak following a train crash on Thursday that left one person dead and 102 passengers injured.
A side train collision between the two trains, T0601 and T1817, occurred at Elandsfontein at around 06:25am on Thursday morning. Train T0601 was from Pretoria en route to Johannesburg and T1817 was an empty train en route to Leralla from the yard.
The train crash has affected traffic on major routes along Elandsfontein and Germiston since Thursday.
Gauteng Metrorail said that at the time of the accident, the trains were being manually authorised between Olifantsfontein and Elandsfontein due to theft of signalling power cables that occurred in the early hours of Thursday.
Metrorail acting spokesperson, Tony Games, said the single line shuttle service implemented on Thursday night was still in operation from Elandsfontein to Kempton Park, but that the shuttle service did not stop at Isando Station because the shuttle train was running on a goods line.
The shuttle train service was running from Leralla to Kempton Park, between Elandsfontein and Kempton Park, from Elandsfontein to Germiston, from Germiston to Johannesburg, and from Pretoria to Kempton Park.
Games said trains from Pretoria were turning at Kempton Park and trains from Johannesburg were turning at Germiston. Buses are also running between Elandsfontein and Isando to complement the shuttle service.
“Metrorail’s appointed technical team continues to work hard around the clock with external service providers to recover normal train operations,” Games said.
“Almost all injured passengers were discharged from hospitals yesterday except for two who were seriously injured.”
Games said they were still investigating the circumstances and the identity of the male person who died in the accident since he was inside an empty train that was not in service.
Comments
Press Office
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation