Rail transport in ECOWAS

[jonasry]

We need a thread for rail transport in ECOWAS. There seems to be a revival of railways in Africa but as of now not in the west.

Are there any trains running at all on the Dakar-Niger railway for example? A report from July 2012 says only local trains are running but they might have been dropped too: http://www.theafricareport.com/socie...-survival.html.

Guinea has local rail transport around the capital Conakry but not much more.

Is the train between Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire still running?

[GAR3TH]

[GAR3TH]

Accra - Ghana Commuter Rail

[Naijaborn]

What does it have to be green-yellow-red??? {I mean the Ghanaian train}

[jonasry]

Altough it's an impressive map you're presenting GAR3TH the truth it that very little work is actually beeing done. Large parts of the network are in disrepair and there seems to be little progress. I'm glad that commuter trains are running, I think they're doing that in Conakry too. But what about inter-city and long-distance trains?

[Paperyostrich]

Originally Posted by jonasry

Altough it's an impressive map you're presenting GAR3TH the truth it that very little work is actually beeing done. Large parts of the network are in disrepair and there seems to be little progress. I'm glad that commuter trains are running, I think they're doing that in Conakry too. But what about inter-city and long-distance trains?

In Conakry, as far as im aware the rail from one end of the city to the other is now commuter rail. As for the rest of that country, the rail line to Kankan is being rebuilt, but that's all i know, the other countries, i have no idea.

[jonasry]

Good news from Senegal

Rail line to be ‘renewed’ in Senegal, Western Africa
http://www.rail.co/2012/01/10/rail-l...estern-africa/