Quick visual aid: Black = existing standard gauge Red = Lagos-Kano standard gauge route Blue = Lagos-Calabar routepic.twitter.com/eNZMRCeboK
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Quick visual aid: Black = existing standard gauge Red = Lagos-Kano standard gauge route Blue = Lagos-Calabar routepic.twitter.com/eNZMRCeboK
Nigeria already has a national railway network--in fact, the new Lagos-Kano line will mostly parallel an existing Lagos-Kano line--but the existing network dates from British colonial days and is a narrower (1067mm) gauge
The situation is similar to what China did in Ethiopia and Kenya, building new standard-gauge railways from a major port to a major interior city (Djibouti to Addis Ababa and Mombasa to Nairobi, respectively), paralleling earlier colonial narrow-gauge lines.
The new Chinese-built routes, in addition to being a wider gauge, tend to follow more direct alignments and locate their stations further from actual city centers--see here in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia (circles indicate station areas; new line in red)pic.twitter.com/KRAx2J5Rb8
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