Transport in Guinea
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[edit] Railways
total:mm 1,086 km
standard gauge: 279 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 807 km 1.000-m gauge (includes 662 km in common carrier service from Kankan to Conakry)
The lines do not all connect.
[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries
Guinea-Bissau - no railways
Senegal - no - 1000mm gauge
Mali - no - 1000mm gauge
Ivory Coast - no - 1000mm gauge
Liberia - no - break of gauge 1000mm/1435mm & 1067mm
[edit] Maps
[edit] Cities served by rail
[edit] Northern line
This line is 1435mm gauge and carries about 12MT per annum.
- Port Kamsar - port
- Boke
- Sangarédi - bauxite mine
[edit] Central line
This line is 1000mm gauge and head off in a northwestern direction.
[edit] Southern line
This line is 1000mm gauge. Conversion to 1435mm gauge has been proposed. [1]
- Conakry - capital and port.
- Kindia - provincial capital.
- Kolèntèn
- Konkouré - several km north of railway
- Mamou - provincial capital
- Kégnégo
- Dabola - junction and break of gauge
- Bissikrima
- Cisséla -
- Kouroussa - bridge over Niger River
- Kankan - terminus and provincial capital.
This line is 1435mm.
- Dabola - junction and break of gauge
- Tougué - bauxite [2]
[edit] South Western line
This line is 1435mm and parallels the Southern line.
- Conakry - capital and port. Rail Map (red dots) Rail Map (gray lines)
[edit] Proposed Trans-Guinean Railways
The heavy duty Transguinean Railways is about 750km long and would be standard gauge (1435mm). It goes from iron ore mines in the south east and bauxite mines in the north to a new port a Matakong. [3]
- Matakong - Deepwater port
- Forécariah
- Madina Woula - way station
- Bambafouga - junction
- Marela - way station
- Faranah
- Tiro
- Kissidougou - way station
- Macenta
- Koule
- Nzerekore
- Lola
- Simandou iron ore deposit near Diéké
- Nimba - iron ore
- Pontiola - bauxite
[edit] Timeline
[edit] 2008
- four ex-Croatian locomotives refurbished and regauged in Russia [4]
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Highways
total: 30,500 km
paved: 5,033 km
unpaved: 25,467 km (1996 est.)
The Trans-West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea, connecting it to Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), and when construction in Sierra Leone and Liberia is complete, to a total of 13 other nations of ECOWAS.
[edit] Waterways
1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft
[edit] Ports and harbors
[edit] Merchant marine
none (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports
15 (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports - with paved runways
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (1999 est.)
The airport code for the capital, Conakry, is CKY.
[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 10
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 1 (1999 est.)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Janes World Railways 2002-2003 p182
- ^ Janes World Railways 2002-2003 p102
- ^ Transguinean
- ^ Railway Gazette International February 2008 p73
