AfricaRail

AfricaRail

AfricaRail is a project to link the railway systems of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin and Togo. All these systems are 1000 mm gauge.

A future stage would link Mali, Nigeria and Ghana which are of 1000 mm, 1067 mm changing to 1435 mm and 1067 mm respectively.

North South Link

Another link might go from Niger to Libya. [ http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=692906 ]

Maps

* [http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/westafrica.pdf UN Map West Africa]
* Atlas of the World [ The Times Atlas of the World, 2007, p85 ]

Namesake

* Not to be confused with yearly conferences such as:
** AfricaRail2008 [ http://www.terrapinn.com/2008/railza/ ]

See also

* Burkina Faso
* Benin
* Togo
* Niger
* [ http://www.railworkinggroup.org/news_04.html ]

External links

* [http://www.africarail.org/ AfricaRail]

References


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