Port Elizabeth railway station

Port Elizabeth railway station is a railway station, located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Port Elizabeth
Railway station
LocationJetty Street, Port Elizabeth 6001
Coordinates33°57′38″S 25°37′30″E
Owned byTFR
Line(s)Metrorail: Shosholoza Meyl: Premier Classe:
  Cape Town–Port Elizabeth
Platforms7 terminus platforms
Tracks7
ConnectionsApple Express (at Humewood Road)
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station
towards Uitenhage
Port Elizabeth MetrorailTerminus
Shosholoza Meyl
Alicedale
towards Johannesburg
Johannesburg–Port ElizabethTerminus
Premier Classe
Uitenhage
towards Cape Town
Cape Town–Port ElizabethTerminus

In 1873, Prime Minister John Molteno of the Cape Colony commenced work on connecting Port Elizabeth to the developing national railway network, resulting in the station complex being located in the historic central district, near the harbour.[1] The prosperity which followed the construction of railways to the interior earned for the port the designation of "the Liverpool of South Africa."

Passenger services operating from the station include:

The Apple Express narrow-gauge tourist train to Avontuur operates from the separate station in Humewood Road near King's Beach. It departs regularly for Thornhill Village via a rail bridge over the Van Stadens River, the highest narrow-gauge rail bridge in the world.

See also

References

  1. Burman, Jose (1984), Early Railways at the Cape. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, p.64. ISBN 0-7981-1760-5
  2. Premier Classe


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