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The Tema-Mpakadan Railway Line is a 96.7 km standard gauge railroad constructed from the Tema to Mpakadan to facilitate the movement of goods along the Eastern corridor of Ghana. [1] The line is part of the 1000 km Ghana-Burkina Faso Interconnectivity Project which will connect Ouagadougou to the Port in Tema. [2] [3]
The Tema-Mpakadan railway line is a 96.7 km standard gauge railway constructed to connect the Harbour in Tema to Mpakadan, a town in the Eastern Region of Ghana. . Construction commenced in July 2018, and the line was officially inaugurated on 25 November 2024 by President Nana Addo Dankwa
In 2010, Ghana Railway Corporation began a GH₵12.9 billion (US$6 billion) rail project at the construction of the Ghana rail infrastructure to Ghana High-Speed Rail (abbreviated GHSR or HSR) and to upgrade all of Ghana's railway line network has been planned and to be completed at the end of 2014 with construction managed by the China Railway ...
2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauge of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm). This type of rail was promoted especially in the colonies of the British Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century by Thomas Hall and Everard Calthrop .
A train at the Accra train station Railway network of Ghana Ghana Railways #1670 in Kumasi. #1670 is a GMDD (General Motors Diesel Division, London, Ontario, Canada) model GT18LC-2, 6-axle, 1,500 horsepower, diesel-electric locomotive, part of an order of 15 ordered in 1995.
The Western Railway Line is the first railway line built in Ghana and was constructed in 1898 and completed in 1903. [2] [3] Takoradi was chosen for the line instead of the Elmina due to the failure in negotiations with the owners of the castle. Also Takoradi was a shorter route to Tarkwa, which had just discovered gold.
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Ghana Railway Development Authority has invited bids to convert the 950 km rail network from 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge to standard gauge, permitting 25 tonne axleloads and increasing speeds from 56 to 160 km/h.