Egypt’s Transport Ministry starts construction of 2nd express train line

Egypt’s Transport Ministry starts construction of 2nd express train line

The Transport Ministry announced it has begun construction work on the second electric express train line, extending from 6 October City to Aswan, Upper Egypt.

The Ministry of Transport said that construction of the railway line began following completion of survey work on the area from Hada’eq October to Dairout on the second line of the express electric train.

The Transport Ministry confirmed that it inspected the connection point with the first line of the electric express train Ain Sokhna-Matrouh in Hada’eq October, which will be an interchange station between the two lines, as the passage of trains of the first line in this station will be shallow and the second line upper.

The train tracks will intercept with roads, it added, including the Central and Middle Ring roads, Western Upper, Bani Mazar, al-Bweity and Dayrout and Farafra roads.

The locations of ten stations were inspected out of a total of 30 stations that make up the project’s stations: these include two express train stations (Bani Suef / Fayoum and Minya), and eight regional train stations (al-Ayat – al-Fashn – al-Adwa – Bani Mazar – Samalout – Minya – Abu Qurqas – Mallawi – Dayrout).

The Ministry of Transport demanded that the route be within