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Metrorail Gauteng is a network of commuter rail services in Gauteng province in South Africa, serving the Johannesburg and Pretoria metro areas. It is operated by Metrorail , a division of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
It is the terminus of various Metrorail commuter rail services in the northern part of Gauteng, and a stop on Shosholoza Meyl inter-city services from Johannesburg to Polokwane and Nelspruit. Pretoria is also the northern terminus of the luxury Blue Train service from Cape Town.
A Metrorail X'Trapolis Mega train running forward to Kalk Bay station south of Cape Town. Metrorail is an operator of commuter rail services in the major urban areas of South Africa. It is a division of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), a state-owned enterprise which is responsible for most passenger rail services in South ...
Midrand station is located in the area of the same name within Region A of the City of Johannesburg.One of the city's metropolitan nodes, of secondary importance within the metropolitan area, the Midrand district is expected to become the hub of activity in far north Johannesburg, near the border with the City of Tshwane, which contains the administrative capital city of Pretoria. [2]
Initially, Metrorail was an operating unit of Spoornet, Transnet's rail subsidiary; in 1996 it became a separate business unit of Transnet. Long-distance passenger rail services, meanwhile, were operated by Spoornet (now Transnet Freight Rail ) under the name Shosholoza Meyl.
Gautrain is an 80-kilometre (50-mile) higher-speed express commuter rail system in Gauteng, South Africa, which links Johannesburg, Pretoria, Kempton Park and O. R. Tambo International Airport. It takes 15 minutes to travel from Sandton to O. R. Tambo International Airport on the Gautrain and 35 minutes from Pretoria station to Park Station in ...
Metrorail, the urban commuter transport service present in Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape, is responsible for transporting up to 2 million passengers daily. With the increasing coverage the nation's highway system provides, long-distance passenger travel has declined in South Africa.
Hatfield is a metrorail station on the Gautrain rapid transit system in the suburb of Hatfield in Pretoria, Gauteng. It was opened on 2 August 2011 as part of the second phase of the Gautrain project.