Khartoum – Nyala railway line

Khartoum – Nyala
Route length:	1329.4 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Legend from Wadi Halfa 0 Khartoum Central Khartoum freight station 4.3 El Qos 6.0 Kilometer 6 7.7 Esch Shagara to Jebel Aulija from Khartoum Central 25.0 Suba 33.5 Kilometer 24 48.3 Bageir connection to the Jazirah Railway 58.9 Kilometer 50 68.7 Masid 79.4 Wad el Lamid 92.4 Wad el Turabi 103.2 El Mielig 110.3 Rihana 112.4 Km 101 116.6 Abu Uscher 118.5 hospital 120.1 108.5 km 122.6 El Talbab 124.1 112.5 kilometers 128.4 Ganneb 131.3 Mustafa 132.2 Km 121.5 137.5 Qurashi connection to the Jazirah Railway 140.4 El Hassaheisa 145.2 Wad it said 147.0 Kilometer 136 150.0 Eugara 154.2 Amara Tara 155.7 Km 144.75 159.2 El Messellamija 163.3 Asasa 165.4 Km 154 172.6 Taijiba 185.5 Wad Medani connection to the Jazirah Railway 190.4 Marangan connection to Jazirah Railway 195.0 Barakat connection to the Jazirah Railway 205.7 Km 194 207.6 Wad en Nau 220.4 El Uqda 227.9 El Schukaba 229.4 217.5 kilometers 235.8 Hag Abdallah 245.9 Misagilia 248.3 236.5 kilometers 253.3 Wad el Haddad 268.2 Hugat 278.8 Kilometer 266 Siding 280.9 Sannar Junction to Sannar Town to Roseires Dam 305.7 Jebel Moja Km 313 319.6 Segadi Junction to the quarries of Segadi 331.4 Jebel Dud 356.8 Jebel Bijut 379.1 Rabak oil mill 380.6 Rabak to El Jebelein 383.0 Hillet Abbas Kusti Railway Bridge , White Nile 393.3 Kusti 416.8 Wusaa 442.1 Umm Koweika Umm Haidchia 467.2 Selima 486.8 Tandati Om Hujajlija 510.6 Wadi Ashana Om Santa 534.7 El Gabsha Balafat 558.6 Om Ruaba Qudajdim 581.8 Abu Hamra El Udajjat 607.6 Semeiha 631.8 He Rahad 640.7 / 0 Aradeib 652.9 Neva 674.9 El one 700.7 El Obeid 711.5 Abu Khiraz Oil Terminal 7.0 Km 636 19.9 Umm Sarir 40.0 Scheikan 56.3 El Birka 73.4 El Hamadi 92.7 Dubeibat 110.7 Jebel Feingar 127.1 Jebel Durus 149.5 Abu Qulb 160.0 Abu Sabat 183.6 Because what 206.1 Daggag 226.3 Abu Ku 237.5 Aradeib 247.3 Jebel Beeia 253.6 Chocho 264.8 Baboja 280.4 Rig el Fula 292.9 Gagamni 302.2 Wadi el Gala 313.7 Sumua 333.6 Buta 353.1 Babanusa Junction to Wau 371.4 Far el Habil 388.1 Abu Rafai 45.2 Et Tibun 425.0 Sharif 442.6 Adeila 466.5 Abu Gabra 489.2 Bachiet 505.5 Dar es Salam 522.7 El Gallabi 538.2 Ed Daein 556.2 Umm Warragat 572.9 Ma'ali 590.2 Suleia 606.8 Kassib 618.9 Choir Schurum 633.6 Gate Taan 652.8 Jebel Umm Kardus 672.5 Bileil 688.7 Nyala

Construction of the Khartoum – Nyala railway began in the winter of 1906/07 as a southern extension of the Khartoum – Wadi Halfa railway in Sudan .

Before the First World War

The Rhodes Colossus (1892), cartoon on the Cape-Cairo plan

The aim was to improve the development of central Sudan . The Cape Gauge , which is now the standard in Sudan, was chosen as the gauge . In 1912, 700 km to El Obeid were completed. Two large bridges over the Nile had to be built in the course of the route: One in Khartoum over the Blue Nile - here the river is more than 500 m wide - and the Kusti railway bridge near the city of Kusti over the White Nile - here is the river almost 5 km wide at high tide. The first bridge had a lift bridge element , the latter a swivel bridge segment so as not to obstruct ship traffic.

Extensive projects were connected with this route: A connection to the Djibouti – Adis Ababa railway and on to British Somaliland , Chad or the Uganda Railway as a section of the Cape Town – Cairo railway connection, which has not yet been built . The British government and the government of Sudan had already obtained a concession from Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia for the latter project on May 15, 1902 , in order to be able to run the route across Ethiopian territory. But none of this came about after the outbreak of the First World War .

Later renewals

In 1926, in Sennar , the railway junction Haija Sennar connected. She opened up a cotton growing area . In 2005 this line was closed. 1952 to 1959, also in Sennar, an approx. 260 km long route was connected to Er Roseires , which owes its creation primarily to the construction of the dam of Roseires , which dammed the Blue Nile here .

1956 to 1959 the line to El Obeid was extended to Nyala , this extension not starting in El Obeid, but 60 km southeast of the then end point of the line in Aradeib Junction . From 1959 to 1962, the Babanusa – Wau railway line was added to this extension . Today, the routes are primarily important for the transport of petroleum products . It is not known whether the route to its western end point, Nyala, is still passable after the war of civil secession in South Sudan .

literature

• Franz Baltzer : The colonial railways with a special focus on Africa . 1916. (Reprint: Reprint-Verlag Leipzig, Holzminden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8262-0233-9 ).
• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7 = North, East and Central Africa. 2009, ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The British government and the government of Sudan had already received a concession from Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia on August 28, 1904. (Robinson, p. 40.)
2. ^ Robinson: World Rail Atlas ... 2009, p. 40.