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Nigerian Railway Corporation operates a network of 3,505
kilometers (2,178 mi) of single track lines, all have 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
gauge.
The network comprises the following lines:
- Lagos - Agege - Ifaw - Ibadan - Ilorin - Minna - Kaduna - Zaria - Kano, 1,126 kilometers (700 mi)
- Ifaw - Ilaro, 20 kilometers (12 mi)
- Minna - Baro, 155 kilometers (96 mi)
- Zaria - Kaura Namoda, 245 kilometers (152 mi)
- Kano - Nguru
- Kaduna - Kafanchan - Kuru - Bauchi - Maiduguri, 885 kilometers (550 mi)
- Kuru - Jos, 55 kilometers (34 mi)
- Kafanchan - Makurdi - Enugu - Port Harcourt, 737 kilometers (458 mi)
The East (E) and West (W) lines are connected by the Link
Line.
1.
West Line
- Apapa (W) - port
- Lagos (W)
- Abeokuta (W)
- Agege (W) - junction
- Ibadan (W)
- Oshogbo (W)
- Ilorin (W)
- Zungeru (W) - bridge
- Minna (W) - junction for Baro
- Kaduna (W) - junction for East Line; junction for Abuja
- Zaria (WX) - junction for Kaura Namoda (W)
- Kano (W)
- Nguru (W) - terminus near Niger border
- Zaria (W) - junction
- Funtua (W)
- Gusau (WN)
- Kaura Namoda (W) - branch terminus near Niger border
- Minna (W) - junction for Baro
- Baro (W) (branch terminus) on River Niger
Kaduna (W) junction for Abuja
(0km) completed
- Abuja (W) - national capital - September, 2009 (186km), the new standard gauge line between Kaduna and Abuja is complete.
Link
line
- Kaduna (W) - junction for East Line cross country
- Idon (WE)
- Kafanchan (E) - junction to West Line cross country
2.
Central Line 1435mm
This line is isolated from the East and West lines.
- Itakpe (C) - iron ore [10]
- Ajaokuta (C) -steel factory
- Ovu (49m) (C)
- (incomplete 22 km)
- Warri (C) - A line to Warri was planned; contractor paid October 2009; completion unknown.
Gauge Convertible Sleepers
3.
East Line
- Port Harcourt (E)
- Aba (E)
- Enugu (E)
- Otukpo (E)
- Igumale (E)
- Makurdi (E) - major bridge
- Kafanchan (E) - junction to West Line
- Kuru (E) - junction for Jos
- Bauchi (E) - was 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) and part of Bauchi Light Railway.
- (built 1961)
- Gombe (E),
- Maiduguri (E) (terminus) - nearest railhead to Chad
4.
Rehabilitate
- Lagos (W)
- 488 km
- Jebba (W) - on River Niger
5.
Under Construction/90% completed
6.
Proposed
- (Coast Line)
- Lagos 0km
- Benin City
- Calabar - 1402km - near border with Cameroon
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