In the first quarter, of 2024, Nigeria spent more on servicing the debt incurred for building its railways than the revenue generated by its railway system. The country spent 2,470% per cent more on railway debt servicing than it made from revenue from rail services in the first quarter of […]
Year: 2024
After four decades of dormancy, Spain and Morocco have revived their ambitious plan to construct a submarine rail tunnel connecting Europe and Africa, just in time for the 2030 FIFA World Cup. Marrakech – In a significant development that could reshape transportation and trade between Europe and Africa, Spain and […]
By Forbes In just over five years, there’s a good chance that you will be able to board a high-speed train in Madrid and travel from Spain to the Moroccan city of Casablanca in five and a half hours, hurtling through a new tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar. This […]
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the Warri-Itakpe rail service after a train derailed on Thursday. The train was travelling from Itakpe in Kogi to Ujevwu in Delta when the accident occurred at about 7.15pm. Ediri Oyibo, a digital strategist who was on board when the accident happened, said […]
The Tanzania Railway Corporation has introduced two new electric trains from South Korea, part of a purchase of 10 sets of locomotives and coaches from the Hyundai Rotem Company. Each set includes eight wagons, with a locomotive at both the front and back, and can carry up to 589 passengers […]
Survivors of an Indian double train crash that killed nine people described on Tuesday their terror when a driver missed a signal and rammed a goods train into a passenger express. The force of the crash on Monday was so strong that one carriage was initially thrust high into the […]
Nigeria’s largest container terminal, APM Terminals Apapa on Wednesday, embarked on an awareness campaign on the standard gauge rail line with a rail trip to Ibadan for its customers. About 20 of its customers comprising of importers and exporters, were present on the trip which began from Ebute Metta rail […]
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) today publishes its five main asks of Government, in a manifesto for the next Parliament which seeks a fresh start for UK rail. RIA, which champions a dynamic rail supply sector, today (6 June) calls on the next Government to boost rail capacity to meet […]
The Nigerian government has said it will resume freight services on the old narrow gauge rail line from Lagos to Kano on Thursday following the completion of rehabilitation. This was made known in a statement issued on Thursday by Sen. Saidu Ahmed Alkali, Minister of Transportation. Alkali stated that President […]
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Niger State Command, said its personnel have intercepted two trailers suspected of transporting vandalized railway sleepers in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state. The Niger State NSCDC Commandant, Joachim Okafor, stated this during a press briefing in his office on Friday. […]