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Egypt-Sudan rail link

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EGYPT-SUDAN RAIL LINK
Saturday, 31 May 2008

Egypt has reportedly created an Egypt-Sudan Railway Committee (ESRC), which is currently promoting the construction of a connecting link between the railway systems of the two countries. Volkhard Windfuhr, chairman of Friends of the Railways of Egypt and the Arab World (FREA) says only 500km separate the two – and a difference of 368mm in gauge. Egypt, he points out, needs to build 450km of new line south of Aswan; Sudan only 50, north from Wadi Halfa. “Technical devices,” he adds, can overcome the other gap.

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