Railway stations in Uganda
Railway stations in Uganda include:
Towns served by rail
Existing
Old Kasese Train Station
- Main Line
- Iganga
- Jinja - bridge over Victoria Nile ; copper smelter
- Iganga - washed away culvert (2008)
- Busembatia
- Kampala - national capital
- Kamwenge
- Kasese - railhead in southwest; cement works ; copper mine
- Branch line from Kampala
- Port Bell - port on Lake Victoria
- North Line
- Mbale
- Kumi
- Aloi
- Soroti
- Lira
- Gulu, Lira and Gulu.
- Pakwach - port in north west on Albert Nile
- Arua - railway does/used to extend to here.[2]
- Nalukolongo - workshops
- Kilembe - copper mine
Proposed
(connection to South Sudan - South to North)
- Westwards from Kasese to
- Northwards from Gulu to Nimule, continuing to
- North-eastwards from Pakwach to
- Southwards from Masaka to Biharamulo in Tanzania.[7]
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Standard gauge
2017
2015
- SG construction starts [9]
2014
- CRBC Deal [10]
- original proposal including train ferry across Lake Victoria
- revised proposal avoiding train ferry across Lake Victoria
- Tanga, Tanzania - Singida - Mutukula - Kampala
- Hub [12]
Out of Service
gollark: They're on cooldown. I'll discuss it tomorrow when they'll be off cooldown.
gollark: I got some shadow walkers. Can they fetch a few reds on the Hub?
gollark: Though *they'll* probably make the biomes all empty, which isn't great.
gollark: _should probably grab loads of the new holidays_
gollark: Wow. A *chicken* asking for a pumpkin!
See also
References
- The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World 12th Ed. 2007
- http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/Kenya/nrm.html
- http://www.railway-technology.com/news/news82920.html?WT.mc_id=DN_News
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ConstructionReview
- http://www.sudantribune.com/After-21-years-of-civil-war,3657
- http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11334378-s15.htm
- See: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=90d0372708c1a842bac12eeb4&id=be2b43b56a&e=7d0db572d7
- http://constructionreviewonline.com/2015/04/us3-2bn-standard-gauge-railway-line-to-connect-uganda-and-s-sudan/
- http://www.trademarksa.org/news/china-46b-railway-deal-test-kenya%E2%80%99s-relations-uganda%5B%5D
- http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2011/10/oil-find-will-change-uganda/
- http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2008/10/rails-from-uganda-to-everywhere/
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