The Ministry of Transport continues the work of implementing the high-speed electric train network, which connects more than 80 Egyptian cities with the governorates of Egypt from Matrouh to Aswan.
“The Seventh Day” publishes in the following points the most important information about the Cairo station, on the fast electric train network that is being implemented.
1. Cairo station is located in Helwan area.
2. It serves the city of Helwan, the city of May 15, and all the surrounding urban areas, and the area south of Cairo, which lies east of the Nile.
3. The length of the first line of the electric express train (Ain Sukhna – El Alamein – Matrouh – Fayoum) is 660 km.
4. The line includes 22 stations.
5. The design speed of the train is 250 km/h.
6. It will transport one million passengers/day and 8500 tons of goods/day.
It contributes to linking the new administrative capital and the new cities with the railway network to transport passengers and goods through a fast, modern and safe means of transportation, as it will start from Ain Sukhna on the Red Sea coast to the new city of Alamein, passing through the new administrative capital, the 6th of October city and the city of Burj Al Arab.
The rapid electric train system will cover all parts of the Republic, in addition to being development arteries serving the new and existing urban and industrial areas, and will contribute to reducing and shortening the travel time between governorates for more than half the time that the citizen currently takes, whether through the old train network or through the current roads linking the governorates, and it is also It serves the transport of goods between ports and governorates and shortens the time period for transporting these goods.
Infographic about the express train