Western Cape Premier optimistic train services will be back to their glory days in the province

CAPE TOWN - Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said that he is optimistic that the train service in Cape Town and the province will soon get back to its former glory.
 
To commemorate Transport Month, Winde and officials from the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) took a train from Bellville to Cape Town on Monday.
 
Winde assessed work done so far to revive the rail network, which was disrupted by vandalism and infrastructure theft, as well the Covid-19 pandemic.
   
While train services have been up and running on the northern line between Bellville and Cape Town since 2022, the service is not yet at its full capacity.
 
The central line, which was the busiest corridor before people started erecting shacks on railway tracks and vandalising infrastructure, is also still not performing optimally.
 
PRASA regional manager Raymond Maseko said, "On the central line we are doing our signalling so that we can run trains as well every 30 minutes or every 20 minutes. We are on par to complete the signalling by end of December this year."
 
Maseko said on the southern corridor, they were on course to moving from a train that runs every 30 minutes, to one that runs every 15 minutes.