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Rail transport in Ivory Coast

Rail transport in Ivory Coast

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Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) has 660 kilometres of railway (1995 estimate). The track gauge is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in).

A Sitarail train in July 2009
Agboville station in July 2009

The railway was built during the French colonial period, and links the port city of Abidjan with Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

Ivory Coast also has a metro system under construction, known as the Abidjan Metro. It will be 37 km long and connect Abidjan with Port-Bouët and Anyama.[1]

Timeline

2010

  • In October 2010, the government announced plans to build a 737 km line which would link the port of San Pedro to mines in the west of the country.[2]

2015

  • The first two of six GT26 locomotives arrived from NRE in June 2015.[3]

2016

2019

  • Three BDe 4/4 II electric railcars, three ABt driving cars and nine second class coaches, formerly in service for Appenzeller Bahnen in Switzerland, were bought by Société de Transport Ivoiro-Burkinabe. They are to be used on services between Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.[5]
  • A bilateral agreement between Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso for the modernisation and extension of the railway line connecting Abidjan, Ouagadougou, and Kaya was signed in July 2019.[6]
  • Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway map
  • ABt and BDe 4/4 II in Switzerland

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Abidjan Metro, Ivory Coast". Railway Technology. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  2. [2]
    "Ivory Coast to Build Railway to Boost Output From Western Mines". Bloomberg. October 5, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
  3. [3]
    "NRE locos arrive in Abidjan". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette. July 4, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Locomotives for Sitarail". railwaysafrica.com. Railways Africa. May 6, 2016. Archived from the original on January 31, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Appenzeller Bahnen to Ouagadougou". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette. August 9, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  6. [6]
    "Côte d'Ivoire – Burkina Faso railway upgrade agreement". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette. August 12, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
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