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- Title
Engineering the Majuba railway line.
- Authors
De Simone, Raimondo; Potgieter, Danie; Naidoo, Kumesh
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Majuba rail project, an electrified heavy-haul railway line which aim to link Majuba Power Station rail yard and Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) coal line in Majuba in South Africa as part of the Eskom Road-to-Rail Initiative. Topics include the awarding of the construction contract to Aveng Grinaker LTA Civil Engineering, the construction aspect of the rail line which include its structure, and the various innovations and problems encountered during the contruction.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; ELECTRIC railroads design &; construction; RAILROADS; INDUSTRIAL development projects; AVENG Grinaker-LTA (Company); TRANSNET Freight Rail (Company)
- Publication
Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 6, p25
- ISSN
1021-2019
- Publication type
Article