Railway stations in Sudan

Railways in Sudan
Blue = 1067mm gauge
Red = 1000mm gauge
dotted = out of use or proposed

Railway stations in Sudan include:

Maps

UNHCR Atlas Map
UN Map
Different map ^[1]

Existing

Wadi Halfa - N - potential break-of-gauge with Egypt
- Merowe
- Karima - branch terminus on River Nile - N
Abu Hamed - N junction for Karima
Barbar
Atbara - N - junction and workshops
Ad-Damir

Port Sudan - E
Jubayt - N
Sinkat - N
Hayya - N - junction
Gadamai
Shendi
Omdurman
Khartoum - C - national capital

Kassala - E - stillborn link to Eritrea
Gedaref - E
Wad Medani - C
Sannar - S - junction to West
Rabak - east bank of River Nile; bridge; junction to south to Al Jabalayn
- Al Jabalayn - C - branch terminus
Kosti - C - west bank of River Nile; bridge

Tandalti - W
Abu Zabad - W

Sannar - S - junction
Damazin - S

Muglad - S
Aweil - S

Muglad - junction to oil fields
Abu Jabra - oil fields

Ar Rahad - S - junction
Al Ubayyid aka El Obeid - E - railhead

Ar Rahad - S - junction
Babanusa - S - junction
Uwayl - S - South Sudan
Waw - S - terminus - on Jur River - South Sudan

Babanusa - S - junction
Nyala - W - terminus
Purram
Tumburra
Samsum

Kassala - nearest station in Sudan to former link line to Eritrea
Teseney, Eritrea - discontinued - break of gauge 1067mm/950mm

Ferry

A weekly ferry service on the Nile River connects the Egyptian railhead at Aswan with the Sudan railhead at Wadi Halfa. ^[2]

Reopen

Babanusa Junction ^[3]
Wau ^[4]

Proposed

Link to Egypt - May 2008 ^[5]
Aswan
Wadi Halfa - N

(connection to Uganda - North to South) - Electrification proposed ^[6]

Wau - 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge
Juba - port on River Nile ; national capital
Nimule - border
Gulu ^[7]^[8]1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) gauge
Tororo, Uganda ^[9]
Pakwach - port on White Nile

(connection to Kenya)

(connection to Ethiopia)

(standard gauge)
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa (0km)
Bedele (491km)
Sudan ^[11]

Transcontinental railway from Dakar and/or from Cameroon to Port Sudan via Chad.

References

Railway stations in Africa

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 Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) 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 Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

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