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Kinki Sharyo #1012
18 february 2010 - Cairo, corner of Osman Ibn Afan and Abd El Aziz Fahmy streets. A three-car rusty old banger leaves the outskirts of Heliopolis on a nearly hour-long journey to central Cairo. The speeds achieved by these cars are - despite the terrible state of the tracks - not too bad at all, and thanks to segregated tracks the vehicles do not have to stand in the huge traffic jams. Sadly - the neglect and the state of disrepair of the vehicles means, that you sometimes need to stand a good 45 minutes at the stop before the next tram comes.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 2
Kinki Sharyo Cairo #4088
18 february 2010 - Cairo, Port Said depot. As I had mentioned previously, Cairo still has two functioning tram depots. The Heliopolis depot runs the Heliopolis Metro lines, whereas the Port Said depot runs the remainder of the Heliopolis routes. Sadly, after long negotiations, we were refused entry to the depot. However - as in Helwan - the first available tramcar was rolled out for us.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 5
Kinki Sharyo #6010
18 february 2010 - Cairo, El Matariya. We began our last day in Cairo with bad news - the CTA denied us access to the tram depots, because we were tourists, not businessmen. Nevertheless we decided that it would be worth giving it a shot, so we set off for Port Said depot to see what we could get out of the guys at the gate. We started our trip at El Matariya.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 4
Kinki Sharyo #6067
17 february 2010 - Cairo, King Hussain Bin Talal square. A group of strangely acting tourists takes pictures of a route 33 tram and of the pointsman at the junction, who resides in his little hut by the junction and takes his naps on a Tatra K5AR seat. That was probably the only trace of the tatras we could see in all of Cairo.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 9
Kinki Sharyo #808
17 february 2010 - Cairo, Kulliet Al-Banat. The trams that run as the Heliopolis metro have a different paint scheme than the 'city' cars. They also have slightly different front designs, soft seats and a film with destinations written on it, rather than boards with route numbers. Due to our lack of language skills riding these was a bit of a lottery, although I think the routes are marked by colours. The tram in the picture is approaching a junction with the branch lines to El Nasr and Abbasiya, which were quite recently closed down due to the construction of the third metro line.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Kinki Sharyo #1012
17 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Ramsis. We are now at Cairo's main public transport hub - we've got the central Ramses railway station, both metro lines and the terminus of the Empain-built tram line to Heliopolis. The route runs from here towards the north-east on a fully segregated alignment till Midan Roxy, where it joins the road network running in the middle of dual carriageways. Despite the tracks being absolutely catastrophic, the trams can still manage around 40km/h on a good day, and with a little good will and money this could be a great start of a Stadtbahn-type network. Even the natives refer to this line as metro. Sadly, according to our source at the CTA, upon the opening of the 'real' metro line 3, the Cairo trams are to disappear...
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 2
Hitachi / SEMAF #4283
16 february 2010 - Cairo, El Matariya. This terminus is the most important point on the tramway network, because here is where most of the routes end. This is also one end of a 2km long access track to Port Said depot, which the trams sometimes need to traverse against the traffic flow. This also used to be a border point between the city and Heliopolis trams - the Heliopolis trams ended here, whereas the city trams ended 100m away, on the other side of the square. Initially the two weren't even connected - the connection was built when both networks were united under the auspices of the CTA.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Hitachi / SEMAF #4261
16 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Al-Sayyid Al-Mirghani. Cairo used to have two tram networks and a trolleybus network. The city centre network used to belong to the CTA, whereas the network in Heliopolis was managed by the company formed by Baron Empain. Somewhere along the way the CTA took over the entire network, but the differences in vehicle types are easily seen. This is probably one of the newest tram vehicles in Cairo - a result of the cooperation between Toshiba and Hitachi - as it rumbles past a square in Heliopolis.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Comments: 1
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