Rail transport in Togo

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Map showing railway lines in Togo

Rail transport in Togo consists of 568 km (353 mi) (2014) of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in)

railway.[1]

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

  • Lomé - port and national capital
  • Blitta
    - terminus of the Lomé–Blitta railway

Railway links with adjacent countries

Standards

History

  • 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]

Proposed international lines

transport ministers of Togo, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Benin, to further international railway connections. The plan, consisting of both upgrading and building new lines, would link Lomé to the planned network.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Togo. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
  2. ^ .
  3. ^ "Steam in Africa 2019 - Togo". Archived from the original on 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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  5. ^ "Togo railway plan". railwaygazette.com. DVV Media International. 22 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  6. ^ "West Africa rail action plan agreed". railwaygazette.com. DVV Media International. 27 May 2023. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.

Further reading

  • E. T. Honig (1988). "Togo". Réseaux Ferrés de L´Ouest Africain - Tome 1 [Railway Networks in West Africa - Volume 1] (in French and English). Röhr Verlag. pp. 34–55. .

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