Malawiya – Tessenai railway line

Malawiya – Tessenai
Route length:	90 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Legend from Port Sudan 0.0 Malawiya Junction according to Gedaref 26.2 Abu Gamal Sudan / Eritrea 35.1 Aligder 52.5 Tessenei 90.0 Expansion end

The Malawiya – Tessenai railway was a cross-border connection between Sudan and Eritrea during the Second World War .

As early as 1918, Ferrovie Eritrée (FE) had been extending its Massaua – Biscia railway in sections to the west towards the Sudanese border with the aim of connecting to the railroad in Sudan . In 1932 Biscia was reached, where the project got stuck.

During the Second World War, the British army drove since 1940, starting from the Sudanese station Malawiya Junction on the Haija Junction – Sannar railway , the route to Eritrea. This happened in the Cape Track used in Sudan . The route finally led to about 38 km beyond Tessanai in a westerly direction. However, the gap to the Massaua – Biscia railway line was not closed after the Italian colonial power had lost the war in the area of their colony in 1941. The new colonial power dismantled the railway tracks because they needed the material for the warfare in North Africa.

See also

• Rail transport in Eritrea
• Rail transport in Sudan

literature

• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7 = North, East ans Central Africa .oO 2009, plate 35 u. 39. ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5