This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. The reason given is: The July 2011 partition of Sudan. (February 2014) |
Railway stations in Sudan include:
Blue = 1067mm gauge
Red = 1000mm gauge
dotted = out of use or proposed
Maps edit
Existing and Proposed edit
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
- 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 edit
A weekly ferry service on the Nile River connects the Egyptian railhead at Aswan with the Sudan railhead at Wadi Halfa.[5]
Reopen edit
Proposed edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ 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