Railway stations in Uganda
Railway stations in Uganda include:
Towns served by rail
Existing
- Bungoma - last town in Kenya
- Malaba, Kenya
- 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.[2]
- 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[3]
- 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.[7]
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- Hoima - proposed oil refinery
Standard gauge
2017
- Kenya [8]
- 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 [9]
2014
- CRBC Deal [10]
- original proposal including train ferry across Lake Victoria
- Tanga, Tanzania - Ocean port
- Musoma - Lake Victoria port [11]
- revised proposal avoiding train ferry across Lake Victoria
- Tanga, Tanzania - Singida - Mutukula - Kampala
- Hub [12]
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.
- ^ "US$3.2bn Standard Gauge Railway line to connect Uganda and S.Sudan". Constructionreview. April 10, 2015.
- ^ "After 21 years of civil war, railway to link Sudan and Kenya - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan".
- ^ "Railpage".
- ^ Unknown
- ^ "US$3.2bn Standard Gauge Railway line to connect Uganda and S.Sudan". 10 April 2015.
- ^ Unknown
- ^ "OIL FIND WILL CHANGE UGANDA | Railways Africa". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2025-02-16.
- ^ "RAILS FROM UGANDA TO EVERYWHERE | Railways Africa". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2025-02-16.
External links
- Maps