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The Algerian government plans to transport 17 million tonnes of freight by rail in 2021, when the construction of a new railway station in Beni Saf, a city close to the frontier with Morocco, is completed. This was noted by transport minister Abdelghani Zaalane.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
A Kenyan court has charged two senior government officials with fraud over land allocation for a new rail line worth $3bn linking Nairobi with Mombasa, East Africa’s biggest port.
Posted 6 days ago by newsbot
The chairman of Kenya’s National Lands Commission (NLC) and the managing director of the country’s rail operator, Kenya Railways, were among 14 officials to deny fraud charges today in a sensational corruption probe.
Posted 6 days ago by newsbot
Few modes of transport evoke such a sense of history and romanticism as rail. The first recorded use of rail transport was around 500BC, when ancient Greeks used a rail-like system – most likely powered by humans or horses – to carry boats across where the Corinth channel currently is.
Posted one week ago by bevans
Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, said Nigeria’s rail line would cover Western corridor of the country traversing nine states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja spanning a total of 1,402 kilometres.
Posted one week ago by newsbot
Officials, business people and companies charged with misdealing during China-funded flagship railway's construction.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Africa’s first high speed railway is now expected to open for traffic by the end of the year as commissioning trials continue.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
The Tunisian National Railway Company has received 60 Chinese-made rail cars dedicated to transporting cereals.
Posted 3 weeks ago by bevans
The Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard gauge rail line will be ready for commercial use next year, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said.
Posted 3 weeks ago by bevans
The City of Cape Town says it will work with other arms of the government to arrest those responsible for recent train fires.
Posted 4 weeks ago by newsbot
Plans to send new trains to Cape Town to help to bolster Metrorail’s ageing fleet could be put on hold following an alleged arson attack which left 11 carriages destroyed at the weekend.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
The first phase of a new light rail railway line in Abuja, Nigeria, built by China Civil Engineering Construction (CCECC) through an investment of $823m, has begun commercial operations.
Posted last month by bevans
Nigeria has formally commissioned the China-assisted Abuja light rail transportation system, the first of its kind in West Africa.
Posted last month by bevans
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari opened the first phase of a new metro-rail service in Abuja, the capital, for public use eight years after the project was initiated.
Posted last month by newsbot
Construction of the 120-kilometre Nairobi-Naivasha standard gauge railway (SGR) is almost complete with engineers having certified 50 per cent of the infrastructure, the government says.
Posted last month by newsbot
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, will on Thursday, this week, commission the recently completed first Phase of the Abuja Light Rail Project.
Posted last month by bevans
One of the world's most iconic steam locomotives - South African Railways (SAR) 3450, 4-8-4, Class 26, 'Red Devil' is to be restored to working order.
Posted last month by bevans
More than three decades after the commencement of construction on a 276-kilometre standard gauge rail line linking Warri in Delta State to Ajaokuta, Kogi State, train operation will begin on the route in two weeks, the Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr Fidet Okheria, has said.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
Gauteng-based manufacturer RailPro is testing a road-rail vehicle intended for passenger transport on a railway line east of Pretoria.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Unipart Rail and Gear Rail signed a partnership agreement at the Africa Rail event in Johannesburg on June 13.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
State-owned transport group Transnet officially launched its international subsidiary Transnet International Holdings on May 30.
Posted 3 months ago by newsbot
A United States-based investor, Ameri Metro Incorporation, on Monday declared its readiness to provide $10bn for the construction of speed rails in Nigeria.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
China Civil Engineering Construction Corp is to complete the long-planned 1 435 mm gauge railway linking Lagos and Kano, under a U$6·68bn contract signed in Abuja on May 15.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
National operator SNTF has introduced a direct passenger service between Alger and the eastern part of the High Plateau line, with the launch of a daily Alger – M’Sila – Batna round trip.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
Nigeria has awarded a $6.68 billion contract to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) for work on a major segment of a railway linking the country’s commercial hub Lagos, in the southwest, and Kano in the north, Xinhua reported.
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