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 38 in) gauge.

A future stage is proposed to link Mali, Senegal, which are also 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 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 12 in).

Timeline

2020

  • Ghana orders new standard gauge rail equipment [3]
  • Ghana 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 (340 km)
  • Ghana Standard Gauge - Western Line [5]

2015

Various links. [6]

See also

References

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