Prasa invests R1.9 billion to improve train signalling

"[P]hase one of the project [is] already underway in the Lenz-Midway line in Gauteng South," he said, adding "[t]he new signalling upgrades and the introduction of new technology will ensure operational efficiency, unlocking capacity and improving reliability".

Montana said that, in both Greenview and Midway-Lenz, they deal with higher than normal number of passenger, and have therefore prioritised these and other high-volume corridors - in line with passenger demand - in order to deliver quality passenger rail services. Towards the end of November, Prasa will therefore start installing a new signalling system in Kwazulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.

As part of its plan to modernise passenger rail services by 2015, Prasa has also invested R373 million into the doubling of rail tracks between Eerste Fabrieke and Greenview, the total upgrade of the Mamelodi Gardens and Pienaarspoort stations and building a new station at Greenview. "The R373 million investment into the rail doubling project between Eerste Fabrieke and Greenview," Montana said, "is but one in a long list of interventions and modernisation measures within passenger rail services."

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