page_title: Gautrain
section_title: Opening to passenger traffic
hierarchical_section_title: Gautrain / History / Opening to passenger traffic
caption_attribution_description: English: The entrance to Gautrain Sandton station in August 2010.
context_page_description: Gautrain is an 80-kilometre commuter rail system in Gauteng, South Africa, which links Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni and OR Tambo International Airport. The service offers a fast, convenient, safe and efficient public transport service. It takes 15 minutes to travel from Sandton to OR Tambo International Airport on the Gautrain and 35 minutes from Pretoria in Tshwane to Park Station in Johannesburg. Buses, shuttles and midibus services are available to transport passengers to and from all stations excluding the OR Tambo International Airport Station.
context_section_description: The first public passenger trip was made on 3 February 2009 by 150 people on a 3 km (2 mi) test track at the depot.
  The first part of the System, between Sandton and OR Tambo International Airport, opened to the public on 8 June 2010, in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The route from Rosebank to Pretoria and Hatfield commenced operations on 2 August 2011, while the remaining section from Rosebank South to Johannesburg Park Station opened on 7 June 2012, due to higher than anticipated underground water ingress into the railway tunnel.
  For the first time ever since its opening to the public in 2010, the Gautrain system had been put to halt since 27 March 2020 as part of the lockdown measures taken by the South African government during the Covid-19 pandemic. Passenger services have started to progressively resume on 4 May 2020.
caption: Sandton station in August 2010
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