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Railway stations in Uganda include:
Towns served by rail
Existing
Bungoma - last town in Kenya- Malaba, Kenya
-
(border)
- Malaba, Uganda
- Tororo - near Kenya border; junction for north line
- Main Line
- Iganga
- Jinja - bridge over Victoria Nile ; copper smelter
- Iganga - washed away culvert (2008)
- Busembatia
- Kampala - national capital
- Kamwenge
- Kasese - railhead in southwest; cement works ; copper mine
- Branch line from Kampala
- Port Bell - port on Lake Victoria
- North Line
- Tororo - junction
- Mbale
- Kumi
- Aloi
- Soroti
- Lira
- Gulu, Lira and Gulu.
- Pakwach - port in north west on Albert Nile
- Arua - railway does/used to extend to here.
-
border Uganda South Sudan - Juba - national capital
- missing link (ferry)
- Nalukolongo - workshops
- Kilembe - copper mine
Proposed
(connection to South Sudan - South to North)
- Lamu - port
- Garissa - river town
- Tororo, Uganda
- Malaba - junction
- Pakwach - river port on White Nile
- Gulu
- Westwards from Kasese to
Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo; - Northwards from Gulu to Nimule, continuing to Juba in South Sudan;
- North-eastwards from Pakwach to Juba in the Sudan, continuing to Wau;
- Southwards from Masaka to Biharamulo in Tanzania.
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- Hoima - proposed oil refinery
Standard gauge
2017
- Kenya
- Naivasha
- Narok
- Bomet
- Nyamira
- Kisumu
- Yala
- Mumias
- Malaba
- Kenya Uganda border.
- Tororo
- Butaleja
- Namutumba
- Iganga
- Luuka
- Mayuge
- Jinja
- Buikwe
- Mukono
- Wakiso
- Kampala districts.
2015
- SG construction starts
2014
- CRBC Deal
- original proposal including train ferry across Lake Victoria
Tanga, Tanzania - Ocean port- Musoma - Lake Victoria port
- revised proposal avoiding train ferry across Lake Victoria
- Tanga, Tanzania - Singida - Mutukula - Kampala
- Hub
Out of service
See also
- Railway stations in Sudan
- Railway stations in Kenya
- Transport in Uganda
- Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
References
- The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World 12th Ed. 2007
- "Nairobi Railway Museum". Archived from the original on 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
- "Sudan Plans Rail Link to East Africa". 20 April 2010. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- "China set for $3.2b Uganda rail plan". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
- ConstructionReview
- "After 21 years of civil war, railway to link Sudan and Kenya - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan".
- "Railpage".
- See: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=90d0372708c1a842bac12eeb4&id=be2b43b56a&e=7d0db572d7
- "US$3.2bn Standard Gauge Railway line to connect Uganda and S.Sudan". 10 April 2015.
- http://www.trademarksa.org/news/china-46b-railway-deal-test-kenya%E2%80%99s-relations-uganda
- http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2011/10/oil-find-will-change-uganda/
- http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2008/10/rails-from-uganda-to-everywhere/
External links
- Maps
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