Railway stations in Uganda

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Railway stations in Uganda include:

Towns served by rail

Existing

Old Kasese Train Station

Bungoma - last town in Kenya
Malaba, Kenya
- (border)
Malaba, Uganda
Tororo - near Kenya border; junction for north line
Main Line
Iganga
Victoria Nile
; copper smelter
Iganga - washed away culvert (2008)
Busembatia
Kampala - national capital
Kamwenge
cement works
; copper mine

Branch line from Kampala
Port Bell - port on Lake Victoria

North Line
Tororo - junction
Mbale
Kumi
Aloi
Soroti
Lira
Gulu, Lira and Gulu.
Albert Nile
Arua - railway does/used to extend to here.^[2]
border Uganda South Sudan
Juba - national capital
missing link (ferry)

Nalukolongo - workshops
Kilembe - copper mine

Proposed

(connection to South Sudan - South to North)

Lamu - port
Garissa - river town
Tororo, Uganda^[3]
Malaba - junction
Pakwach - river port on White Nile
Gulu

Kampala - capital
Malaba - junction
- Nimule, South Sudan - border ^[4]^[5]
- Juba - national capital ^[6]
- Waw - river port on Jur River - break of gauge with Sudan

Westwards from Kasese to Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo;
Northwards from Gulu to Nimule, continuing to Juba in South Sudan;
North-eastwards from Pakwach to Juba in the Sudan, continuing to Wau;
Southwards from Masaka to Biharamulo in Tanzania.^[7]

____

Hoima - proposed oil refinery

Standard gauge

2017

Kenya ^[8]
Naivasha
Narok
Bomet
Nyamira
Kisumu
Yala
Mumias
Malaba
Kenya Uganda border.
Tororo
Butaleja
Namutumba
Iganga
Luuka
Mayuge
Jinja
Buikwe
Mukono
Wakiso
Kampala districts.

2015

SG construction starts ^[9]

2014

CRBC Deal ^[10]

original proposal including train ferry across Lake Victoria
Tanga, Tanzania - Ocean port
Musoma - Lake Victoria port ^[11]

revised proposal avoiding train ferry across Lake Victoria
Tanga, Tanzania - Singida - Mutukula - Kampala

Hub ^[12]

Out of service

Busoga

See also

References

^ The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World 12th Ed. 2007
^ "Nairobi Railway Museum". Archived from the original on 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
^ "Sudan Plans Rail Link to East Africa". 20 April 2010.
^ "China set for $3.2b Uganda rail plan". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
^ ConstructionReview
^ "After 21 years of civil war, railway to link Sudan and Kenya - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan".
^ "Railpage".
^ See: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=90d0372708c1a842bac12eeb4&id=be2b43b56a&e=7d0db572d7
^ "US$3.2bn Standard Gauge Railway line to connect Uganda and S.Sudan". 10 April 2015.
^ http://www.trademarksa.org/news/china-46b-railway-deal-test-kenya%E2%80%99s-relations-uganda^{[permanent dead link]}
^ http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2011/10/oil-find-will-change-uganda/
^ http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2008/10/rails-from-uganda-to-everywhere/

External links

Maps

Railway stations in Africa

¹ Partly in Asia. ² Dependencies. ³ Status undetermined.

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