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Hitachi / SEMAF #4225
18 february 2010 - Cairo, Egypt - al Sayyid Al Mirghani: Hitachi tram #4225 again, showing the excellent alignment of the tracks between wide dual carriageways found throughout Heliopolis, the city adjoining Cairo that was a planned development at the start of the 20th century. Even these tracks failed to save the trams, however, and immediately they were withdrawn work began to add even more traffic lanes where the lines had run before, probably leading almost at once to even more road congestion.
Hitachi / SEMAF #4225
18 february 2010 - Cairo, Egypt - Atef el Sadat Square: One of the Hitachi cars on the main route through Heliopolis, passing under one of the many flyovers beloved of the city planners. Note the little pointsman`s hut, where someone could shelter when stationed at this busy junction to control the points at this crossing (although we never saw anyone doing this).
Hitachi / SEMAF #4261
9 january 2012 - Kair (Egipt), El-Horeya. Tramwaj linii 36 - jedynej kursującej w miarę przyzwoicie - dojeżdża do swojej północnej końcówki.
Author: straszny
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
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Hitachi / SEMAF #4225
16 february 2010 - Heliopolis (EG) - Midan al Sayyid al Mirghani. Heliopolis was conceived and built as a 'garden city' away from the crowded centre of Cairo, with fine buildings and wide boulevards, often including tram tracks. This is one of the main east-west roads through the city, carrying a mix of Cairo to Heliopolis interurbans and purely local routes operated by these ex-Cairo city trams.
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Hitachi / SEMAF #4261
16 february 2010 - Heliopolis (EG) - Midan al Sayyid al Mirghani. Cairo city tramways Hitachi cars #4261 and #4262 on a local service in Heliopolis. The Heliopolis system is now fully integrated with Cairo, although these ex-city trams now work only a handful of remaining former Cairo routes and don't run into central Cairo.
Hitachi / SEMAF #4225
16 february 2010 - Heliopolis (EG) - Al-Sayyid-Al-Mirghani. Although this series of trams have Hitachi builders plates, it seems likely they were assembled locally from Japanese parts. This street (like many in Cairo) has a big military building, so photos are forbidden. Luckily, we couldn't read the notices (all in Arabic)!
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Hitachi / SEMAF #4283
16 february 2010 - Cairo, El Matariya. This terminus is the most important point on the tramway network, because here is where most of the routes end. This is also one end of a 2km long access track to Port Said depot, which the trams sometimes need to traverse against the traffic flow. This also used to be a border point between the city and Heliopolis trams - the Heliopolis trams ended here, whereas the city trams ended 100m away, on the other side of the square. Initially the two weren't even connected - the connection was built when both networks were united under the auspices of the CTA. 
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
Hitachi / SEMAF #4261
16 february 2010 - Cairo, Midan Al-Sayyid Al-Mirghani. Cairo used to have two tram networks and a trolleybus network. The city centre network used to belong to the CTA, whereas the network in Heliopolis was managed by the company formed by Baron Empain. Somewhere along the way the CTA took over the entire network, but the differences in vehicle types are easily seen. This is probably one of the newest tram vehicles in Cairo - a result of the cooperation between Toshiba and Hitachi - as it rumbles past a square in Heliopolis.
Author: straphan
Place: القاهرة (al-Qāhirah) (القاهرة (al-Qāhira))
| Owner: CTA القاهرة (al-Qāhirah)
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Hitachi / SEMAF #4265
18 february 2010 - Cairo (EG) - el Mataria. In addition to their Kinki Sharyo trams, Cairo has a large batch of these Japanese-built Hitachi cars. Here at el Mataria, all remaining Cairo city lines terminate before returning to Heliopolis by various routes. 4265 + 4266 have just come along the connecting track from Port Suez depot (the only one remaining on CTA city lines) along nearly 2km of single track laid in the 'wrong' lane of a busy dual carriageway - great fun in the crazy Cairo traffic! Only around seventeen city tram sets are now turned out each day, with the rest of the Heliopolis service being formed of proper 'interurban' style trams. Soon, another new metro line will open and these remaining ex-city lines will disappear.
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