Simon's Town railway station
Metrorail railway station at the end of the Southern Line From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metrorail railway station at the end of the Southern Line From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simon's Town railway station is a Metrorail railway station in the town of Simon's Town on the Cape Peninsula; it is the southern terminus of the Southern Line. The station is located between Station Road (the M4) and the beach.
Simon's Town | |||||||||||
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Metrorail station | |||||||||||
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Location | Station Road, Simon's Town, 7975, Cape Town South Africa | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 34.1868°S 18.4253°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | PRASA | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 3 (1 side platform, 1 island) | ||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
Connections | Golden Arrow Bus Services | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1890 | ||||||||||
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The railway line from Fish Hoek into Simon's Town is single-track, but the station itself has three tracks; one track is served by a side platform next to the station building on Station Road, while the other two are served by an island platform connected by a pedestrian subway.
There were no trains running on the 6.3 km final section of the Cape Town suburban line between Fish Hoek and Simon's Town from November 2009 until February 2011, due to unusually high tides that piled heaps of sand on the line and caused serious damage beyond Glencairn, where structure beneath the track was undermined.[1]
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