Between December 2018 and January 2019, Siemens Mobility has commissioned three of the busiest railway stations in Africa, Johannesburg Park Station, Braamfontein station and the eastern portion of Pretoria Station with the Siemens Sicas S7 electronic interlocking system. Johannesburg Park Station consists of 114 sets of points, 129 signals and 16 operational platforms, making it one of the largest railway stations in Africa. Various training is provided to PRASA technical, operational and maintenance personnel in order to bridge the skills gap between the existing technologies to the electronic based signalling system. This new signalling system will help increase operational capacity, provide a higher level of flexibility and reduce train delays. The completion of the rail signalling project will see the Gauteng railway network aligned with modern rail networks across the world and Siemens is extremely proud to be involved in this significant project.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 12, 2019 15:00 UTC