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Railway stations in Guinea

Railway stations in Guinea include:

Maps

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Guinea Railway Map

Cities served by rail

Santou - Dapilon (North Trans-Guinean Railway)

This 125km long standard gauge railway connects bauxite mines in the Santou II and Houda areas with a new port at Dapilon, both places in the north of Guinea.

Chemin de Fer de Boké

This 136km long standard gauge railway connects bauxite mines at Sangaredi with Port Kamsar.

Chemin de fer de Conakry – Fria

This 127km line is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge and heads off in a northwestern direction. It shares its first 16km with Chemin de Fer de Guinee.

Chemin de Fer de Guinee

This 662km line is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge. Conversion to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge has been proposed.[1]

Tougué Branch

This proposed line is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in).

Societe des Bauxites de Kindia (SBK)

This 105km line is standard gauge and parallels the Chemin de Fer de Guinee line between Canakry and Sofonia.

TransGuinean Railway (under construction 2025)[5]

The Transguinean Railway will be 622km long and of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) (standard gauge). It goes from iron ore mines in the south east and potentially bauxite mines in the north to a new port a Matakong.[6][7]

  • Matakong - proposed Deep water port
  • Morebaya Port Terminal: rail unloading terminal
  • Forécariah: passing station
  • Kelemou: intermediate station
  • Madina Woula: intermediate station
  • Kassa: intermediate station
  • Oure-Kaba: intermediate station
  • Tagagna: passing station
  • Laya: intermediate station
  • Faranah: intermediate station
  • Soroforia: intermediate station
  • Douako: passing station
  • Nialinko: intermediate station
  • Diankoya: passing station
  • Kerouane: technical operations station
  • Feredou (Simandou Mine, WCS, Simandou blocks 1 and 2): rail loading terminal

There will be a branch to:

  • Simfer Mine (Rio Tinto, Simandou blocks 3 and 4): rail loading terminal

Proposed Guinea - Liberia Railway

(This line would be heavy duty 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge) This line is badly affected by the theft of rail spikes and plates which can cause derailments.

Proposed Mali railway

Timeline

2020

  • Work starts on Dapilon (port) - Santou (mine) railway) 1435mm gauge

2014

2010

  • Guinea and Liberia agree to build transborder railway for iron ore traffic.[3] This railway would be shorter and cheaper than a railway entirely within Guinea territory. As part of the deal, the narrow gauge Trans-Guinean railway would be renovated. 1435mm gauge. Later rescinded.

See also

References

  1. ^ Janes World Railways 2002-2003 p182
  2. ^ a b "BSG Resources Limited". Archived from the original on 2010-08-03. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
  3. ^ a b c "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-06-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Janes World Railways 2002-2003 p102
  5. ^ "PROJECT DESCRIPTION". Winning Consortium Simandou. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  6. ^ Wilson, Tom (2024-01-07). "World's biggest mining project to start after 27 years of setbacks and scandals". Financial Times. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  7. ^ "Transguinean". www.teamgroup.it. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  8. ^ "Simandou to start at 2Mt in 2012 - Vale".
  9. ^ Garnaut, John (2009-04-27). "Why Rio's Guinea iron ore was an offer Beijing could refuse". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. ^ "Beny's railway coup".
  11. ^ "Liberian ore line to spur Guinea revival". Railway Gazette International. 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
  12. ^ a b http://www.lldc2conference.org/custom-content/uploads/2013/07/Mali-National-report-English.pdf Archived 2021-04-20 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
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