Railway stations in Sudan
Railways in Sudan
Blue = 1067mm gauge
Red = 1000mm gauge
dotted = out of use or proposed
Blue = 1067mm gauge
Red = 1000mm gauge
dotted = out of use or proposed
Railway stations in Sudan include:
Maps
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
- Tandalti - W
- Abu Zabad - W
- 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
- 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.[4]
Reopen
Proposed
-
Link to Egypt - May 2008[7] - Aswan
- 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][10]1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge
- Tororo, Uganda[11]
- Pakwach - port on White Nile
(connection to Kenya)
(connection to Ethiopia)
- (standard gauge)
- Ethiopia
-
Addis Ababa (0 km) - Bedele (491 km)
- Sudan[13]
- Transcontinental railway from Dakar and/or from Cameroon to Port Sudan via Chad.
See also
- Egypt-Sudan Railway Committee[14][15]
- Transport in Sudan
- Rail transport in Sudan
- Sudan Railways
- 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
- ↑ http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/sudan.pdf
- ↑ "Winne.com - Report on Sudan, Beyond Common Perceptions".
- ↑ "Cairo to Khartoum by train+ferry - Travel information & advice".
- ↑ "President Al-Bashir Affirms his Support to Enhancement of Sudan Railways Corporation".
- ↑ "Sudan Opens North-South Railway".
- ↑ "Railways Africa - EGYPT-SUDAN RAIL LINK".
- ↑ "Electricity will power Kenya-Sudan railway - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan".
- ↑ http://railwaysafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3212&Itemid=35
- ↑ "Sudan to Build High-Speed Railway".
- ↑ "Sudan Plans Rail Link to East Africa".
- ↑ afrika.no - East Africa: Countries move to upgrade railway network
- ↑ bonface (19 May 2015). "491 km railway line connecting Ethiopia to Sudan launched".
- ↑ http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=593608
- ↑ http://www.medibtikar.eu/+The-Egypt-Sudan-railway-for-368+.html?PHPSESSID=de71902709a2587c8e43649d608e77f6
External links
Media related to Train stations in Sudan at Wikimedia Commons
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