Misrata – Sabha railway line
The Misrata - Sabha railway is a double-track , standard-gauge , approximately 810-kilometer-long railway line in Libya that is currently under construction . It branches off between the settlements of Al Hayshah (El Isha) and Abu Qurayn (Abugrein) near the coast from the Ras Ejder – Sirt railway line in a southerly direction and leads to Sabha. According to other sources, the connection in Sirt is planned. The north-south-facing route will be single-track. At a later stage, it will be extended south via Al Gadrun and Toumu towards Niger .
The main reason for building this connection is to connect the iron ore deposits at Sabha and the steel mill in Misrata, as well as to ship kaolin and quartz sand to the seaports and industrial sites on the Libyan coast.
The project was awarded to the China Railway Construction Corporation in 2008 - exclusively for signaling technology . The Italian Ansaldo STS received the order for the signaling technology . The route should be opened in 2012. Caused by the civil war in Libya , the work was interrupted in February 2011 when the People's Republic of China evacuated its forces.
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- Continental Railway Journal 156 (2009), p. 454f and 158, p. 547.
- hmk: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya . In: IBSE-Telegram 237 (August 2010), p. 8.
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- ↑ hmk: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya . In: IBSE-Telegram 237 (August 2010), p. 8.
- ↑ jst: Libya becomes a railroad country . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 4/2011, p. 173.
- ↑ jst: Libya becomes a railroad country . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 4/2011, p. 173.
- ^ Report in the Railway Gazette, February 22, 2008
- ↑ On the evacuation measures of foreign countries