Sahel Metro Explained

Sahel Train
Type:	Passenger
Start:	Sousse
End:	Mahdia
Operator:	French: [[Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens]]
Linelength Km:	73
Electrification:	25 kV 50 Hz

The Sahel Train is an electrified, metre gauge railway and suburban rail line with trains serving Sousse and Mahdia, with a spur to Monastir, in Tunisia.^[1] The 73km (45miles) line has overhead electrification at 25 kV, 50 Hz. Including a triangular junction west of Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir, the line is mostly double track. However, south of the large multi-platform station at Moknine, the line becomes single track with a limited number of passing loops at stations including Mahdia tourist-Zone and Téboulba.

Stations

The line's stations are, working southwards:

• Sousse - Bab Jadid
• Sousse - Mohamed V
• Sousse South
• Sousse Industrial Zone
• Sahline
• Sahline Sebkha
• Hotels Monastir
• Skanes-Monastir airport station
• La Faculté
• Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir
• Monastir Industrial Zone
• Khniss - Bembla
• Ksiba Bennane
• Bouhjar
• Lamta
• Sayada
• Ksar Hellal Industrial Zone
• Ksar Hellal
• Moknine Gribaa
• Moknine
• Téboulba Industrial Zone
• Téboulba
• Bekalta
• Baghdadi
• Mahdia tourist-Zone
• Sidi Messaoud Simes
• Borj Arif
• Mahdia Ezzahra
• Gare Mahdia

References

• Timetables

Notes and References

1. Web site: Banlieue de Sahel. Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens. 2 April 2015.