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Rail transport in Togo

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Rail transport in Togo

Rail transport in Togo consists of 568 km (2008) of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) railway. However, no trains have run on them for many years.

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Standards

  • Coupling – Centre buffer and two side chains
  • Brakes – Vacuum brake

    • Towns served by rail

  • Lomé - port and national capital
  • Blitta - terminus
  • Burkina Faso - no - same 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge
  • Benin - no - same 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge
  • Ghana - no - break-of-gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) / 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in).

    • AfricaRail

    Togo is a participant in the AfricaRail project, an Indian proposal has surfaced to link the railways in Benin and Togo with landlocked Niger and Burkino Faso.

    2014

  • Siding across border to Diamond Cement Ghana Limited at Aflao in Ghana.

    • References

    Rail transport in Togo Wikipedia
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