Metrorail (South Africa)

The Metrorail system consists of 471 stations, 2,228 kilometres (1,384 mi) of track, and carries an average of 1.7 million passengers per weekday.

[1] Metrorail was formed in 1996 as a business unit of Transnet and was transferred to the South African Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC), the predecessor of PRASA.

[4] This region operates two separate lines in the Eastern Cape: one running from East London to Berlin, and one from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage.

[6] Metrorail trains, as with the rest of the South African rail network, run on 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) track.

[14][15] Serious incidents include murders and assaults on-board trains; several level crossing accidents,[16][17] and a crash in Soweto.

[18] An organisation called the Rail Commuters Action Group instituted a lawsuit against Metrorail and the government to force them to invest more money in security.

[19] The case reached the Constitutional Court, which declared that Metrorail has "an obligation to ensure that reasonable measures are taken to provide for the security of rail commuters".