Rail transport in Burundi

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The rail transport in Burundi is limited since 1982 to history and not yet completed projects. There is currently no rail transport in Burundi .

history

From 1947 to 1982 there was a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm in Bujumbura in the area of ​​the port on Lake Tanganyika . It was used exclusively for freight traffic . It was operated by the Office Congolais des Chemins des fer des Grands Lacs (CFL).

Project

In 2008 there were plans for a railway line from Isaka ( Tanzania ) on the Tabora – Mwanza railway to Burundi. An earlier project with a similar thrust, which had already been funded, failed when the First World War broke out .

literature

  • Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7 = North, East ans Central Africa .oO 2009, p. 70ff. ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robinson, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Robinson, p. 13.