Railway stations in Djibouti explained

Railway stations in Djibouti are served by standard gauge railways of the Djiboutian Railway Company.

Metre gauge railway

The metre gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railway once connected Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti. The operating company that was known as the Ethio-Djibouti Railways built the railway between 1894 and 1917 to connect the Ethiopian capital city to French Somaliland. During early operations, it provided landlocked Ethiopia with its only access to the sea. After World War II, the railway progressively fell into a state of disrepair due to competition from road transport.

The railway has been mostly superseded by the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, an electrified standard gauge railway that was completed in 2017.[1] The metre gauge railway has been abandoned in central Ethiopia and Djibouti. However, a rehabilitated section is still in operation near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border. As of February 2018, a combined passenger and freight service runs two times a week between the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa and the Djibouti border, stopping at Dewele (passengers) and Guelile (freight). Plans were announced in 2018 to rehabilitate track from Dire Dawa to Mieso.

List of railway stations

Passenger railway stations

The stations below are passenger railway stations on operational railways.

Station DistanceAltitude Remarks
Djibouti City - Port of Doraleh01NaN140NaN0Mainly freight
Djibouti City - Nagad121NaN1300NaN0Djibouti City Main Station
Holhol441NaN14070NaN0
Ali Sabieh771NaN16920NaN0

Other stations

Station built Status
Djibouti CityEthio-Djibouti Railwayabandoned
ChébéléEthio-Djibouti Railwayabandoned
Ethio-Djibouti Railwayabandoned
HolholEthio-Djibouti Railwayabandoned
DasbiouEthio-Djibouti Railwayabandoned
Ali SabiehEthio-Djibouti Railwayabandoned

Gauge

Proposed lines

A new line from Ethiopia will serve the port of Tadjourah which lies on the opposite (northern) shore of the Gulf of Tadjourah.[2] [3]

In 2013, CCECC of China is to build a new line from a container harbour at the Port of Doraleh to the Ethiopian border (near Ali Sabieh), on the way to Ethiopia. The new line junctions at Dewale.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway begins commercial operations. https://web.archive.org/web/20180101183806/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/01/c_136865306.htm. dead. January 1, 2018. Xinhua. 1 January 2018.
  2. Web site: Civil society is a watchdog in fighting corruption: Petroleum minister . 4 September 2012 . 20 October 2012 . 3 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161003055944/http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article43100 . dead .
  3. Web site: Railpage.