Railway stations in Sudan
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Railway stations in Sudan include:
Maps
- UNHCR Atlas Map
- UN Map
- Different map [1]
Existing
- Wadi Halfa - N - potential break-of-gauge with Egypt
- Merowe
- Karima - branch terminus on River Nile - N
- Abu Hamed - N junction for Karima
- Barbar
- Atbara - N - junction and workshops
- Ad-Damir
- Port Sudan - E
- Jubayt - N
- Sinkat - N
- Hayya - N - junction
- Gadamai
- Shendi
- Omdurman
- Khartoum - C - national capital
- Kassala - E - stillborn link to Eritrea
- Gedaref - E
- Wad Medani - C
- Sannar - S - junction to West
- Rabak - east bank of River Nile; bridge; junction to south to Al Jabalayn
- Al Jabalayn - C - branch terminus
- Kosti - C - west bank of River Nile; bridge
- Ar Rahad - S - junction
- Al Ubayyid aka El Obeid - E - railhead
- Ar Rahad - S - junction
- Babanusa - S - junction
- Uwayl - S - South Sudan
- Waw - S - terminus - on Jur River - South Sudan
Kassala - nearest station in Sudan to former link line to Eritrea
Teseney, Eritrea - discontinued - break of gauge 1067mm/950mm
Ferry
A weekly ferry service on the Nile River connects the Egyptian railhead at Aswan with the Sudan railhead at Wadi Halfa. [2]
Reopen
Proposed
Link to Egypt - May 2008 [5]- Aswan
- Wadi Halfa - N
(connection to Uganda - North to South) - Electrification proposed [6]
Wau - 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge- Juba - port on River Nile ; national capital
-
Nimule - border - Gulu [7][8]1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge
- Tororo, Uganda [9]
- Pakwach - port on White Nile
(connection to Kenya)
(connection to Ethiopia)
- (standard gauge)
- Ethiopia
Addis Ababa (0km)- Bedele (491km)
- Sudan [11]
- Transcontinental railway from Dakar and/or from Cameroon to Port Sudan via Chad.
See also
- Transport in Sudan
- Rail transport in Sudan
- Railway stations in Uganda
- Railway stations in Eritrea
- Railway stations in Ethiopia
- Railway stations in South Sudan
- Railway stations in Egypt
- Egypt-Sudan Railway Committee [12][13]
References
- ↑ http://www.winne.com/sudan/to06.html
- ↑ http://www.seat61.com/Sudan.htm#.VSJLIJO1eRM
- ↑ http://www.sunanews.net/english-latest-news/6449-president-al-bashir-affirms-his-support-to-enhancement-of-sudan-railways-corporation.html <
- ↑ http://www.railway-technology.com/news/news79552.html?WT.mc_id=DN_News
- ↑ Railways Africa - EGYPT-SUDAN RAIL LINK
- ↑ http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article5934
- ↑ http://railwaysafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3212&Itemid=35
- ↑ http://www.railway-technology.com/news/news85420.html?WT.mc_id=DN_News
- ↑ http://www.railway-technology.com/news/news82920.html?WT.mc_id=DN_News
- ↑ afrika.no - East Africa: Countries move to upgrade railway network
- ↑ http://constructionreviewonline.com/2015/05/ethiopia-to-sudan-railway/
- ↑ http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=593608
- ↑ http://www.medibtikar.eu/+The-Egypt-Sudan-railway-for-368+.html?PHPSESSID=de71902709a2587c8e43649d608e77f6
