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
[edit ]Existing and Proposed
[edit ]- Egypt Aswan - 0km
- Egypt Toshka & Abu Simbel - proposed branch
- Egypt Sudan - border
- Sudan Wadi Halfa - N - potential break-of-gauge with Egypt
- Merowe
- Karima - branch terminus on River Nile - N
- Sudan Abu Hamed - N junction for Karima
- Sudan Barbar
- Sudan Atbara - N - junction and workshops
- Ad-Damir
- Port Sudan - E
- Jubayt - N
- Sinkat - N
- Hayya - N - junction
- Gadamai
- Shendi
- Omdurman
- Sudan Khartoum - C - national capital - 910km
- Sudan Kassala - E - stillborn link to Eritrea 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
- Sudan Ar Rahad - S - junction
- Sudan Babanusa - S - junction
- Sudan South Sudan border
- South Sudan Aweil - S - South Sudan
- South Sudan Wau - S - terminus - on Jur River - South Sudan
- Sudan Kassala - nearest station in Sudan to former link line to Eritrea
- 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 ]- Egypt Link to Egypt - May 2008[7]
- Egypt Aswan
- Egypt Sudan border
- Sudan Wadi Halfa - N
(connection to Uganda - North to South) - Electrification proposed[8]
- South Sudan Wau - 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge
- South Sudan Juba - port on River Nile ; national capital
- South Sudan Uganda Nimule - border
- Uganda Gulu [9] 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge
- Uganda Tororo, Uganda [10]
- Uganda Pakwach - port on White Nile
- Kenya Rongai
- Kenya Lake Baringo
- Kenya Lokichar
- Kenya Lodwar
- Kenya South Sudan border Kenya-South Sudan
- South Sudan Juba
(connection to Kenya)
(connection to Ethiopia)
- (standard gauge)
- Ethiopia
- Ethiopia Addis Ababa (0 km)
- Ethiopia Bedele (491 km)
- Ethiopia Sudan border Ethiopia-Sudan
- Sudan junction.
- Sudan branch to Port Sudan.
- Sudan Khartoum [11] [12]
- Transcontinental railway from Dakar and/or from Cameroon to Port Sudan via Chad.
See also
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- ^ "Sudan Atlas Map" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006年10月20日.
- ^ "Sudan Map" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2001年11月13日.
- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 17 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. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Sudan Plans Rail Link to East Africa". 20 April 2010. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- ^ "19 May 2015: 491 km railway line connecting Ethiopia to Sudan launched". 19 May 2015.
- ^ Smith, Kevin (June 11, 2020). "Ethiopia-Sudan standard gauge project study secures funding". International Railway Journal.