AfricaRail

AfricaRail is a project to link the railway systems of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin and Togo.[1] [2] These are all 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge.

A future stage is proposed to link Mali, Senegal, which are also 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge; Nigeria and Ghana have a different narrow gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) but are converting to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in).

Timeline

2020
  • Ghana orders new standard gauge rail equipment [3]
  • Eastern SG line approved [4]

2019
  • 8 Apr 2019 Ghana's Ministry of Railways Development has reached an agreement with GERC to construct the Tema - Accra - Koforidua - Kumasi eastern line (340km)
  • Ghana Standard Gauge - Western Line [5]

2015

Various links. [6]

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See also

References
  1. "News 04". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  2. UN
  3. SG equipment
  4. Eastern Line
  5. Western SG line
  6. http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrastructure/single-view/view/abidjan-ouagadougou-railway-upgrade-begins.html


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