Ras Ejder – Sirt railway line

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The Ras Ejder – Sirt railway is a railway line under construction in Libya .

The project

The line will have two tracks and standard gauge . It is around 625 kilometers long and leads from the Tunisian border at Ras Ejder via Tripoli to Sirte . It is part of a future rail link crossing North Africa from Morocco to Egypt . An electrification is planned for a later date.

The Sirt – Banghazi (Benghasi) railway line is under construction as an eastern extension . The Misrata – Sabha railway line coming from the south is to connect to the settlements of Al Hayshah (El Isha) and Abu Qurayn (Abugrein) near the coast .

was standing

The project was awarded to the China Railway Construction Corporation - exclusively for signaling technology . The Italian Ansaldo STS received the order for the signaling technology . The route should be opened in 2009. But there were delays in the completion. Only a 5 km long test track is in operation near Tripoli. The line was still under construction in 2011 when, caused by the civil war in Libya , work was interrupted in February 2011 and the Chinese forces evacuated.

Trivia

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi on the 40th anniversary of his revolution in 2010 as a state gift for a salon - railcars converted DSB MG from current production of these trains for the Danish State Railways via suitable. It was a four-part unit with two saloon cars and a conference car. The equipment included an Italian espresso machine and a jogging treadmill. The diesel railcar is designed for speeds of up to 200 km / h. Since the only drivable route in Libya - as a test route near Tripoli - is only a five-kilometer section, it was never used. But he probably survived the civil war unscathed.

The train can be seen on a satellite image from November 10, 2013 from Google Earth and a geo-tagged photograph.

See also

literature

  • Continental Railway Journal 156, 2009, p. 454f and 158, p. 547.
  • hmk: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. In: IBSE Telegram 237, August 2010, p. 8.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Railway Journal 156; after: hmk: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya . In: IBSE Telegram 237 (August 2010), p. 8, the route should be 650 km long.
  2. ↑ hmk: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya . In: IBSE Telegram 237, August 2010, p. 8; according to jst: Libya is becoming a railroad country . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 4/2011, p. 173, a connection is only planned in Sirt.
  3. ↑ a b c d jst: Libya becomes a railroad country. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International. 4/2011, p. 173.
  4. ↑ On the evacuation measures of foreign countries
  5. ^ Walter Rothschild: Libya. In: HaRakevet. 24/1, March 2011, p. 19.
  6. ↑ jst: Libyan IC4 to Denmark? In: Eisenbahn-Revue. 5/2013, p. 240; Nikolaj Vraa: Fandt DSB's forsvundne IC4-tog i Libya . In: Ekstrabladet of March 21, 2013.
  7. ^ IC4 train from AnsaldoBreda in Libya