• Source: Rail transport in Togo

Rail transport in Togo consists of 568 km (353 mi) (2014) of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway.




Operators


Trains are operated by Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Togolais (SNCT), which was established as a result of the restructuring and renaming of Réseau des Chemins de Fer du Togo from 1997 to 1998. Between Hahotoé and the port of Kpémé, the Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin (CTMB) operated phosphate trains.




Lines



Lomé–Aného railway
Lomé–Blitta railway
Lomé–Kpalimé railway
Hahotoé–Kpémé railway (operated by CTMB)




Towns served by rail



Lomé - port and national capital
Blitta - terminus of the Lomé–Blitta railway




Railway links with adjacent countries


Burkina Faso - no - same 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge 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).




Standards


Coupling – Centre buffer and two side chains
Brakes – Vacuum brake
Maximum speed – up to 35 km/h




History



Construction of the first railway line in Togo, the Lomé–Aného railway, began in 1904.
In 1980, the average distance travelled by one person was 50 kilometers.
A siding across the border from a cement plant in Aflao, Ghana, to the port of Lomé was completed in 2014.




= Proposed international lines

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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 Burkina Faso. In May 2023, a plan was agreed upon by the transport ministers of Togo, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Benin, to further international railway connections. The plan, consisting of both upgrading and building new lines, would link Lomé to the planned network.




See also



Transport in Togo




References






Further reading


E. T. Honig (1988). "Togo". Réseaux Ferrés de L´Ouest Africain - Tome 1 [Railway Networks in West Africa - Volume 1] (in French and English). Röhr Verlag. pp. 34–55. ISBN 3-88490-172-9.




External links



UN Map
History of rail transport in Togo on fahrplancenter.com

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Olimpiade Musim Panas 2012
• Rail transport in Togo
• Rail transport by country
• Transport in Togo
• History of rail transport in Togo
• History of rail transport
• AfricaRail
• Transport in Burkina Faso
• Rail transport in Ghana
• Rail transport in Lesotho
• Rail transport in Morocco