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The Tokar–Trinkitat Light Railway was built in 1921 and 1922 at 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) narrow gauge and was 29 km long, [23] primarily used for the export of the cotton crop from Tokar. It used ex-War Department Light Railways rolling stock and Simplex locomotives. It was absorbed by Sudan Railways in 1933 and closed in 1952. [24]
Location of Sudan. Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in North Africa.In 2010, Sudan was considered the 17th-fastest-growing economy [1] in the world and the rapid development of the country largely from oil profits even when facing international sanctions was noted by The New York Times in a 2006 article. [2]
The reason given is: The July 2011 partition of Sudan. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( February 2014 )
The River Transport Corporation (RTC) operated as a parastatal from 1973 until 2007 when two private companies, the Nile River Transport Corporation and the Sudan River Transport Corporation, took it over. [7] Before that, the latter companies were run by the Sudan Railways Corporation essentially as feeders to the rail line. [7]
Atbara is an important railway junction and railroad manufacturing centre, and most employment in Atbara is related to the rail lines. The Sudanese National Railway Company's headquarters are located in Atbara. The city also is home to one of Sudan's largest cement factories, the Atbara Cement Corporation.
The Sudan Railways network underwent its final spur of railway construction in the 1950s. [2] It included an extension of the western line to Nyala (1959) in Darfur Province and of a southwesterly branch to Wau (1961), southern Sudan's second largest city, located in the province of Bahr el Ghazal.
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