Rail transport in Togo

Rail transport in Togo consists of 568 km (353 mi) (2014) of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway.[1]

Map showing railway lines in Togo

Operators

Trains are operated by Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Togolais (SNCT), which was established as a result of the restructuring and renaming of Réseau des Chemins de Fer du Togo from 1997 to 1998.[2] Between Hahotoé and the port of Kpémé, the Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin (CTMB) operated phosphate trains.[2]

Lines
Togo train from Lomé to Kpalimé at an intermediate station in 1990

Towns served by rail
Main article: Railway stations in Togo
  • Lomé - port and national capital
  • Blitta - terminus of the Lomé–Blitta railway

Standards

History
Main article: History of rail transport in Togo
  • Construction of the first railway line in Togo, the Lomé–Aného railway, began in 1904.
  • In 1980, the average distance travelled by one person was 50 kilometers.[4]
  • A siding across the border from a cement plant in Aflao, Ghana, to the port of Lomé was completed in 2014.[5]

AfricaRail

Togo is a participant in the AfricaRail project, an Indian proposal has surfaced to link the railways in Benin and Togo with landlocked Niger and Burkina Faso.

See also
  •  Trains portal
  •  Africa portal

References
  1. Togo. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
  2. Harris, Ken, ed. (2005). Jane's World Railways 2005-2006 (47th ed.). Jane's Information Group. p. 464. ISBN 0 7106 2710 6.
  3. "Steam in Africa 2019 - Togo". Archived from the original on 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  4. Goldsack, Paul, ed. (1981). Jane's World Railways 1981-82 (23rd ed.). Jane's Publishing Company Ltd. p. 514. ISBN 0 7106 0726 1.
  5. "Togo railway plan". railwaygazette.com. DVV Media International. 22 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.