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  • Cairo East Nile monorail tests photo Kamel Al-Wazir 1
    Metro Report International

    Metro and monorail testing underway as Cairo network grows

    2023-11-28T05:45:00Z

    EGYPT: Test running on Cairo’s East Nile Monorail and on two branches of metro Line 3 started on November 5. East Nile Monorail Following a site visit on November 16, Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir announced that the East Nile Monorail line will be handed over ...

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    National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), Egypt

    El Hayqa El Qawmiah lel-Anfak

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    Cairo Metro

    Opened 1987. Network of three metro lines serving 78 stations. See Cairo network map.A city-centre tunnel section opened on September 26 1987 extending Egyptian National Railways’ Helwan line north from Al Sayeda Zeinab to Al Shohadaa (formerly Mubarak; 4·2 km, 5 stations), creating metro Line 1. The link north onto ...

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    Cairo Transport Authority

    First line opened 1910. The network expanded until the 1970s, since when it retrenched to a 24 km network in Helwan to the south of Cairo (feeding metro Line 1) and a 36 km network in Heliopolis to the northeast, comprising four Cairo–Heliopolis routes and some local routes in Heliopolis. ...