date:Mar 20, 2014
Cape Town service, Capcor, will be more expensive than the 650km Natcor route to Durban, but Transnet said this was less to do with the longer physical distance and more to do with operational challenges and economics.
The route down to Durban involves a gentle slope, whereas the route to Cape Town requires several locomotive changes and involves many more gradient changes, which add cost. In addition, Transnet is likely to deploy its newest diesel-electric locomotives on the oversubscribed D