Transport in Guinea
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[edit] Railways
total: 1,086 km
standard gauge: 279 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) gauge
metre gauge: 807 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge (includes 662 km in common carrier service from Kankan to Conakry)[citation needed]
The lines do not all connect.
[edit] Cities served by rail
[edit] Northern line
This line is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) gauge (standard gauge) and carries about 12,000,000 t (11,810,478 long tons; 13,227,736 short tons) per annum.
- Port Kamsar - port
- Boké
- Sangarédi - bauxite mine
[edit] Central line
This line is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge and head off in a northwestern direction.
[edit] Southern line
This 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]
- Conakry - capital and port.
- Kindia - provincial capital.
- Kolèntèn
- Konkouré - several km north of railway
- Mamou - provincial capital
- Kégnégo
- Dabola - junction and break of gauge
- Bissikrima
- Cisséla -
- Kouroussa - bridge over Niger River
- Kankan - terminus and provincial capital.
This line is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in).
- Dabola - junction and break of gauge
- Tougué - bauxite [2]
[edit] South Western line
This line is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) and parallels the Southern line.
- Conakry - capital and port. Rail Map (red dots) Rail Map (gray lines)
[edit] Proposed Trans-Guinean Railways
The heavy duty Transguinean Railways is about 750 km long and would be 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) (standard gauge). It goes from iron ore mines in the south east and bauxite mines in the north to a new port a Matakong.[3]
- Matakong - Deepwater port
- Forécariah
- Madina Woula - way station
- Bambafouga - junction
- Marela - way station
- Faranah
- Tiro
- Kissidougou - way station
- Macenta
- Koule
- Nzerekore
- Lola
- Simandou iron ore deposit near Diéké
- Nimba - iron ore
- Pontiola - bauxite
[edit] Timeline
[edit] 2008
- July 2008 - wobbles over Simandou leases [4]
- four ex-Croatian locomotives refurbished and regauged in Russia [5]
[edit] 1994
- Progress [6]
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Highways
total: 30,500 km
paved: 5,033 km
unpaved: 25,467 km (1996 est.)
The Trans–West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea, connecting it to Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), and when construction in Sierra Leone and Liberia is complete, to a total of 13 other nations of ECOWAS.
[edit] Waterways
1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft
[edit] Ports and harbors
[edit] Merchant marine
none (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports
15 (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports - with paved runways
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (1999 est.)
The airport code for the capital, Conakry, is CKY.
[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 10
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 1 (1999 est.)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Janes World Railways 2002-2003 p182
- ^ Janes World Railways 2002-2003 p102
- ^ Transguinean
- ^ http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23855122-5001641,00.html
- ^ Railway Gazette International February 2008 p73
- ^ http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/1994/9214094.pdf
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