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Egypt Today
The Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA) needs 12 rail test machines to detect and repair defects in railways, an official source told Egypt Today on Monday revealing that contracts to purchase eight of those are being finalized.
ERA will receive four rail test machines worth €8.5 million by the end of 2020 supplied by an Austrian company under a contract signed few months ago.
The devices will enable the authority to diagnose defects in the railroads, which increases the safety, and inhibit derailment accidents.
Ministry of Transport is implementing a plan to rehabilitate the railway sector by developing signal systems, replacing, maintaining railcars, railways, and modernizing rail stations.
The latest derailment accident occurred in July 2018 in Giza’s Al-Marazeeq railway station, and it led to the injury of 57 people. A year earlier, two trains crashed in Alexandria leaving around 20 dead and dozens injured, according to the director of Ambulance Authority in Western Delta Mohamed Abu Homs.
Earlier this year, a train, with no driver on board, moved at an extremely high speed and crashed into the platform’s buffer stop at Cairo’s busiest and main railway station, located in Ramses district. The collision caused an explosion of the fuel tank and triggered a huge blaze, leaving 20 people dead, and 43 injured.
