Railway stations in Sudan
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Blue = 1067mm gauge
Red = 1000mm gauge
dotted = out of use or proposed
Railway stations in Sudan include:
Maps
- UNHCR Atlas Map[1]
- UN Map[2]
- Different maps[3] Aljabalan map
- Sudan and South Sudan Map [4]
Existing and Proposed
Aswan - 0km
Toshka & Abu Simbel - proposed branch
- border
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 - 910km
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
- Tandalti - W
- Abu Zabad - W
- Muglad - S
- Aweil - S - South Sudan
- Muglad - junction to oil fields
- Abu Jabra - oil fields
- Ar Rahad - S - junction
- Al Ubayyid aka El Obeid - E - railhead
Ar Rahad - S - junction
Babanusa - S - junction
border
Aweil - S - South Sudan
Wau - 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.[5]
Reopen
Proposed
Link to Egypt - May 2008[7]
Aswan
border
Wadi Halfa - N
(connection to Uganda - North to South) - Electrification proposed[8]
Wau - 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge
Juba - port on River Nile ; national capital
Nimule - border
Gulu[9]1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge
Tororo, Uganda[10]
Pakwach - port on White Nile
Rongai
Lake Baringo
Lokichar
Lodwar
border Kenya-South Sudan
Juba
(connection to Kenya)
(connection to Ethiopia)
- (standard gauge)
- Ethiopia
Addis Ababa (0 km)
Bedele (491 km)
border Ethiopia-Sudan
junction.
branch to Port Sudan.
Khartoum[11][12]
- Transcontinental railway from Dakar and/or from Cameroon to Port Sudan via Chad.
See also
- Egypt-Sudan Railway Committee
- Transport in Sudan
- Rail transport in Sudan
- Railway stations in Egypt
- Railway stations in Eritrea
- Railway stations in Ethiopia
- Railway stations in South Sudan
- Railway stations in Uganda
References
- ^ http://www.unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/3dee2ccf0.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/sudan.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Winne.com - Report on Sudan, Beyond Common Perceptions".
- ^ Sudan and South Sudan rail map[usurped]
- ^ "Cairo to Khartoum by train+ferry - Travel information & advice".
- ^ "Sudan Opens North-South Railway". 16 March 2010.
- ^ "Railways Africa - EGYPT-SUDAN RAIL LINK".
- ^ "Electricity will power Kenya-Sudan railway - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan". 4 September 2004. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
- ^ Cmsadmin (17 May 2010). "Sudan to Build High-Speed Railway". Railway Technology.
- ^ "Sudan Plans Rail Link to East Africa". 20 April 2010.
- ^ "19 May 2015: 491 km railway line connecting Ethiopia to Sudan launched". 19 May 2015.
- ^ Sudan-Ethiopia link
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Railway stations in Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Rep. Congo
- DR Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt1
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte2
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Réunion2
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena2
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara3
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
1 Partly in Asia. 2 Dependencies. 3 Status undetermined.