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The Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway (Amharic: አዲስ አበባ–ጅቡቲ የባቡር መስመር; French: Chemin de fer Addis Abeba–Djibouti, Oromo: Daandii baaburaa Finfinneefi Jibutii, Somali: Jidka Tareenka ee Addis Ababa-Jabuuti) is a standard gauge international railway that serves as the backbone of the new Ethiopian National Railway Network.
The Ethio-Djibouti Railway is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge railway built in 1897–1917. The line connected the new Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa (1886) to the Port of Djibouti in French Somaliland, providing landlocked Ethiopia with railway access to the sea.
The old metre gauge railway was almost defunct and unable to transport goods to and from Ethiopia to Djibouti for decades. In 2010, Ethiopia decided to build a new standard gauge railway. In 2011, one year after finalizing plans on a new national railway network, financing was secured for the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway and construction was ...
Rail transport in Ethiopia is done within the National Railway Network of Ethiopia, which currently consists of three electrified standard gauge railway lines: the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, the Awash–Weldiya Railway and the Weldiya–Mekelle Railway. Other lines are still in the planning phase.
The old Ethio-Djibouti Railways station in Djibouti City. The metre gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railway once connected Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti.The operating company that was known as the Ethio-Djibouti Railways built the railway between 1894 and 1917 to connect the Ethiopian capital city to French Somaliland.
Current railway stations in Ethiopia are served by standard gauge railways of the National Railway Network of Ethiopia which is mostly under construction, except the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway. Other stations were built for the in 2018 still operating metre gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railways , although this railway has officially been superseded ...
ADDIS ABABA/BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethiopia has been lauded by experts from China's ruling Communist Party as a "model country" in Beijing's $126 billion Belt and Road initiative to build rail, road ...
ER operates passenger and freight transport. Founded on 28 November 2007 (regulation 141/2007) as a quasi-public corporation to operate Ethiopia's passenger and freight rail services, mainly the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, it receives federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization. [1] ERC's headquarters is located in Addis ...