Japanese Electric Rail vehicles in Egypt

[feero]

A short summary about Japanese Electric Rail vehicles in Egypt

 

Since 1962 Egypt got a lot of electric rail cars from japan (trams , metro ) rail vehicles
some work under Egyptian rail ways (Cairo underground metro )  , some under Cairo transport authority  and some in Alexandria transport authority 

 

Pic no: 1 Cairo tram designed by Kinki sharyo and Toshiba

 

Pic no: 2 Cairo tram designed by Kinki sharyo and HITACHI

 

Pic no:3 After the success of the units supplied to the Heliopolis Metro-and made by kinki sharyo CTA ordered new units to work in Cairo (2 units tram ) and in helwan (3 units tram) 110 units manufactured by kinki sharyo in Japan and 40 manufactured by semaf -egypt

 

Pic no: 4 20single units delivered from Kinki sharyo at 1962 to work under Heliopolis company

 

Pic no:5 From 1962 until 1989, Metro fleet was increased to 280 vehicles Japanese industry started in 62 a train wagon train consisting of one then two and three and four vehicles manufactured by kinki sharyo in Japan and some by semaf -egypt

 

Pic no: 6 Cairo underground metro line no 1 was designed by Alstom –France, in 1992 the Egyptian government order new units but this time from kinki sharyo in the same design.

 

Pic no: 7 Cairo underground metro line no 2 trains manufactured by kinki sharyo in Japan

 

Pic no: 8 Cairo underground metro line no 2 (new trains 2011) units manufactured by kinki sharyo in Japan

 

Pic no: 9 Cairo underground metro line no 3 , first 7 trains manufactured by kinki sharyo in Japan , the rest manufactured by semaf -egypt

 

Pic no: 10 Alexandria tram designed and build by Kinki sharyo

 

Pic no: 11in 1995 Alexandria transport authority ordered double deck units to be added for kinki trams

 

Pic no: 12 Alexandria tram designed by Kinki sharyo and build by semaf –egypt

 

[feero]

a cad drawing for Cairo underground metro line no 2

(under Construction)

[feero]

Finally i have finished drawing Cairo tram designed by Kinki sharyo and Toshiba in a 3D :)

thanks

 

[cteno4]

Great work feero! These would lend themselves to print on clear acetate fold up models and some tomytec mechs! A guy in Europe has done some wonderful euro trams models this way.

 

Jeff