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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]
New Zealand Railways Corporation (Rail operator 1981 – 1990, land owner 1990 – 2003, Ontrack 2003–2008, railway land owner 2008 – present) New Zealand Rail Limited (Defunct, privatised 1993, renamed Tranz Rail in 1995)
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]
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.
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.
In 1985-1986 they restored six of the Sudan Railways 2-8-2 for grain haulage. In 1989 they built three diesel railcars for Sudan, and one for Mozambique. In 1991 they built three 3 ft ( 914 mm ) gauge 4-4-0 steam locomotives and fifteen carriages for the railroad at Euro Disney .
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;