Rail transport in the Western Sahara

The rail in the Western Sahara consists solely of an about 5-kilometer section of the remainder to Mauritanian territory extending railway Nouadhibou-M'Haoudat .

Originally, the route ran north of Choum through topographically problematic terrain, which, among other things, made a tunnel necessary. The side of the mountain that belongs to Western Sahara slopes steeply and the adjacent terrain is flat. Therefore, the original route was abandoned in this section and the line was re-routed in 1978 (according to other information, the route was re-routed between 1995 and 2005). To do this, the route had to be run about five kilometers across the territory of the Western Sahara, while the original route ran entirely on Mauritanian territory.

literature

• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7 = North, East ans Central Africa . o. O. 2009, ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5 , p. 49, map 3.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robinson, p. 49.