Simon's Town railway station

Simon's Town
Metrorail station
Location	Station Road, Simon's Town, 7975
Coordinates	34°11′12″S 18°25′31″E / 34.1868°S 18.4253°E / -34.1868; 18.4253Coordinates: 34°11′12″S 18°25′31″E / 34.1868°S 18.4253°E / -34.1868; 18.4253
Owned by	PRASA
Line(s)	Southern Line
Platforms	3 (1 side platform, 1 island)
Tracks	3
Connections	Golden Arrow Bus Services
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Opened	1890
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station Glencairn towards Cape Town Southern Line Terminus
Location
Location in the Cape metropolitan area

Simon's Town railway station is a Metrorail railway station in the town of Simon's Town on the Cape Peninsula; it is the southern terminus of the Southern Line. The station is located between Station Road (the M4) and the beach.

The railway line from Fish Hoek into Simon's Town is single-track, but the station itself has three tracks; one track is served by a side platform next to the station building on Station Road, while the other two are served by an island platform connected by a pedestrian subway.

There were no trains running on the 6.3 km final section of the Cape Town suburban line between Fish Hoek and Simon's Town from November 2009 until February 2011, due to unusually high tides that piled heaps of sand on the line and caused serious damage beyond Glencairn, where structure beneath the track was undermined.^[1]

Vicinity

• Naval Base Simon's Town
• Boulders Beach
• False Bay Yacht Club
• Jubilee Square

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