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Railways in Sudan. Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railways.The main line runs from Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to Khartoum and southwest to El-Obeid via Sennar and Kosti, with extensions to Nyala in Southern Darfur and Wau in Western Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan.
The main system, Sudan Railways, which was operated by the government-owned Sudan Railways Corporation (SRC), provided services to most of the country's production and consumption centers. [2] The other line, the Gezira Light Railway, was owned by the Sudan Gezira Board and served the Gezira Scheme and its Manaqil Extension. [5]
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.
The Uganda Standard Gauge Railway is a planned railway system linking the country to the neighboring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, as part of the East African Railway Master Plan. The new standard-gauge railway (SGR) is intended to replace the old, inefficient metre-gauge railway system. The ...
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.
Railways in Sudan Blue = 1067mm gauge Red = 1000mm gauge dotted = out of use or proposed. Railway stations in Sudan include: Maps. UNHCR Atlas Map [1] UN Map [2]
Pages in category "Rail transport in Sudan" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Egypt–Sudan Railway Committee; S. Suakin-Berber Railway;
The main problem is the difference in terms of gauge between the two countries which lead to a Break of gauge.. Egypt has the standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) whereas Sudan uses a narrow gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) .