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Durban train usage down 41% in one year

GroundUp rode a near-empty train past mounds of uncollected rubbish

A train departs from Durban station. Photos: Joseph Bracken

Passenger numbers on Durban’s Metrorail fell by 41% last year, the first drop since 2021/22.
This is despite hundreds of millions of rands spent rehabilitating the network.
The Bluff line is still closed, other lines run partial services, and the rollout of card payments has stalled.

Passenger numbers on Durban’s Metrorail have fallen by 41% within a year, despite recovery attempts by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).
Last year the average number of daily passengers dropped for the first time since the 2021/22 financial year. An average of about 33,000 passengers travelled on the train service daily in the 2025/26 financial year, down 41% from about 56,000 in…

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