Rail transport in Ivory Coast

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Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) has 660 kilometres (410 mi) of railway (1995 estimate). The track gauge is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in).

The railway was built during the French colonial period, and links the port city of Abidjan with Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

Ivory Coast also has a metro system under construction, known as the Abidjan Metro. It will be 37 km long and connect Abidjan with Port-Bouët and Anyama.

Railway links with adjacent countries

Burkina Faso - yes - 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Ghana - no - break of gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)/1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Mali - no - same gauge
Guinea - no - same gauge
Liberia - no - break of gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)/1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

Timeline

2010

In October 2010, the government announced plans to build a 737 km line which would link the port of San Pedro to mines in the west of the country.

2015

The first two of six GT26 locomotives arrived from NRE in June 2015.

2016

Six locomotives were ordered from Grindrod.

2019

Three BDe 4/4 II electric railcars, three ABt driving cars and nine second class coaches, formerly in service for Appenzeller Bahnen in Switzerland, were bought by Société de Transport Ivoiro-Burkinabe. They are to be used on services between Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
A bilateral agreement between Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso for the modernisation and extension of the railway line connecting Abidjan, Ouagadougou, and Kaya was signed in July 2019.

Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway map
ABt and BDe 4/4 II in Switzerland

Gallery

Buffer-and-screw coupler 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.

References

"Abidjan Metro, Ivory Coast". Railway Technology. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
"Ivory Coast to Build Railway to Boost Output From Western Mines". Bloomberg. October 5, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
"NRE locos arrive in Abidjan". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette. July 4, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
"Locomotives for Sitarail". railwaysafrica.com. Railways Africa. May 6, 2016. Archived from the original on January 31, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
"Appenzeller Bahnen to Ouagadougou". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette. August 9, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
"Côte d'Ivoire – Burkina Faso railway upgrade agreement". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette. August 12, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.

External links

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Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
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