Haija Junction – Sannar railway line

Haija Junction – Sannar
Gezira Light Railway
Route length:	795.0 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Legend from Port Sudan 0 Haija Junction to Atbara 21.1 Abu Tikr 43.4 Imasa 65.6 Adarot 84.3 Tehilla 105.2 Derudeb 123.7 Delai 147.9 Gadamai 175.4 Ungawatiri 203.3 Eribab 231.2 Amadam 257.5 Hadalija 277.8 Mitatib 297.1 Aroma 314.0 Akala 331.5 Tagalhusi 347.4 Kassala 375.5 Malawija to Tessenai 402.9 El Hagis 412.7 Km 413 from New Halfa 431.6 Khashm el Jirba 449.2 Shagrab 466.5 El Maqatta 497.5 Esch Shovak 522.1 Umm Gidad 541.5 El Asasa 564.7 Al-Qadarif 586.8 Wad el Huri 612.4 Matna 619.0 Km 619 633.6 Qala en Nahi 651.0 Qurein 671.4 Hawata 694.8 El Hasira 699.4 Km 699 713.4 Chor el Achan 732.7 El Dinder 744.0 Km 744 754.7 It suki 763.7 Umm Duraba 772.7 Hamadnallah 789.1 Kassab ed Doleib 795.0 Sannar Town to Khartoum to Nyala

The Haija Junction – Sannar railway connects Haija Junction with Sannar in Sudan .

history

The railway line was opened in several sections between 1924 and 1926. It connected the Khartoum – Nyala railway with the Atbara – Port Sudan railway via Al-Qadarif and Kassala . Like all other routes in the main Sudan Railways network , it was built with a gauge of 1067 mm . On the Atbara – Port Sudan railway, it began at kilometer 272.5, where the Haija Junction station was built. It ended in Sannar, a railway junction, where it connected to the Khartoum – Nyala line, among other things. During the Second World War , the Malawiya – Tessenai railway line, which was built for military purposes and which crossed the border to Eritrea to the east , was briefly connected, branching off from Malawiya station .

The main task of the Haija Junction – Sennar railway line was to transport cotton from the Gezira plain to the port of Port Sudan (today: Bur Sudan ) on the Red Sea . With the increasing shift of freight traffic in Sudan from rail to road, the railway line increasingly lost its function. In 2005 operations were completely stopped, but the railway infrastructure should still be in place.

literature

• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7. = North, East and Central Africa. 2009, ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5 .