Rail transport in Burkina Faso
There are 622 kilometres of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) Côte d'Ivoire and is part of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway. As of June 2024, 'Sitarail' does not operate a passenger train to Abidjan.
Burkina Faso is landlocked, but the railway to Abidjan provides rail access to a port. Links to railways in
Stations
The following towns of Burkina Faso are served by the country's railways:
- 
- border- Niangoloko
- Banfora
- Peni
- Bobo-Dioulasso
- Sala
- Koudougou
- Bingo
- Ouagadougou (national capital)
- Ziniaré (service suspended)
- Kaya terminus
Construction resuming
- (for 3MTpa manganese - 2014)?
- Kaya (terminus)[4]
- Dori (approx. 100 km of the extension from Kaya to Dori; visible on Google Earth dated 15/2/07)
- Markoye
- Tambao (manganese),[5] near Niger/Mali borders[6][7]
Proposed
- (1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gaugegauge)
Tamale- Navrongo
- Bolgatanga
- Paga
- Border (Ghana-Burkina Faso)
- Dakola
- Pô
- Bagré
- Zabre
- Tenkodogo
- Manga
- Ouagadougou - national capital - junction - break of gauge
See also
- Railway stations in Burkina Faso
- Railway stations in Ghana
Proposed
2011
On 31 November 2011, an agreement was signed to build a new international railway connecting Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Benin.[8] See AfricaRail.
2014
Frank Timis. "The project will happen in the next three years and will require investment of nearly $1 billion".[9][10]
2018
Ghana and Ivory Coast sign a deal to develop a through rail link.
Ghana and Burkina Faso sign deal for link Link
Maps
- UN Map (no longer shows railway lines). (Dead link, 12.09.23)
- UNHCR Map Archived 18 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Dead link, 12.09.23)
Gallery
-
metre gauge gauge in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.
See also
- Ghana Railway Corporation
- Railway stations in Niger
- Railway stations in Ivory Coast
- Transport in Burkina Faso
- West Africa Regional Rail Integration
References
- ^ "Railway Gazette: Essential renewals must pave the way for ambitious expansion strategy". Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "Railway Gazette: News in Brief". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "2008-01-01". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Times Atlas of the World 2007 p85
- ^ RailwayAfrica July 2009, p9
- ^ UNHCR Map shows extension to Tambao
- ^ "Railpage".
- ^ "Railway to Link West African States". Railways Africa. 18 January 2012.
- ^ "Railpage".
- ^ Burkina Faso gives green light for $1 bln manganese mine, Reuters
External links
Media related to Rail transport in Burkina Faso at Wikimedia Commons