Rail transport in Togo

Togo train from Lomé to Kpalimé at an intermediate station in 1990

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.

Standards

• Coupling – Centre buffer and two side chains
• Brakes – Vacuum brake^[1]

Towns served by rail

• Lomé - port and national capital
• Blitta - terminus

Railway links with adjacent countries

• 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.

Timeline

2014

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

See also

• History of rail transport in Togo
• Railway stations in Togo
• Transport in Togo

References

1. http://www.steam.dial.pipex.com/africa.htm

External links

• Media related to Rail transport in Togo at Wikimedia Commons
• UN Map
• Early history