Rail transport in Togo
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Rail transport in Togo consists of 568 km (353 mi) (2014) of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 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
- Lomé–Aného railway
- Lomé–Blitta railway
- Lomé–Kpalimé railway
- Hahotoé–Kpémé railway (operated by CTMB)[2]
Towns served by rail
- Lomé - port and national capital
- Blitta- terminus of the Lomé–Blitta railway
Railway links with adjacent countries
- metre gaugegauge
- Benin - no - same 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge
- (3 ft 6 in).
Standards
- Coupling – Centre buffer and two side chains
- Brakes – Vacuum brake[3]
- Maximum speed – up to 35 km/h[2]
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
- ^ Togo. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
- ^ ISBN 0-7106-2710-6.
- ^ "Steam in Africa 2019 - Togo". Archived from the original on 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ISBN 0-7106-0726-1.
- ^ "Togo railway plan". railwaygazette.com. DVV Media International. 22 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ "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. ISBN 3-88490-172-9.
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