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Dedicated railway stations with a single platform and station facilities for travellers were present at only three stations along the railway: Legehar train station, Dire Dawa, and Djibouti City. The Addis Ababa railway station was completed its current form in 1929, the Dire Dawa station in 1910, and the Djibouti City station in 1900. The Dire ...
The old Ethio-Djibouti Railways station in Djibouti City. The metre gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railway once connected Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti.The operating company that was known as the Ethio-Djibouti Railways built the railway between 1894 and 1917 to connect the Ethiopian capital city to French Somaliland.
The Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway runs roughly parallel to the old metre-gauge Ethio–Djibouti Railway for most of its length. [10] However, the standard-gauge railway is built on a new, straighter right-of-way that allows for much higher speeds. New stations have been built outside city centres, and most of the old railway stations have been ...
Nagad Railway Station also handles freight trains.It is the main freight station of Djibouti, with the Port of Doraleh of Djibouti City being the only other. Only freight trains continue northwards from Nagad Railway Station to the Port of Doraleh - on diesel power, the electrified section of the standard-gauge railway terminates at Nagad Railway Station.
The border crossing with Ethiopia at Guelile has no railway station, the first railway station on Djiboutian territory is at Ali Sabieh, 9 km inland. 81 km of the railway between the border post at Guelile and the Nagad railway station in the capital Djibouti City close to the Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport are electrified, standard ...
The railway station buildings on the Awash–Hara Gebeya Railway are rather functional and rectangular. The stations on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway were built in 2015 and 2016, the stations on the Awash–Hara Gebeya Railway were built in 2017 and 2018 for the section between Awash and Kombolcha.
Rail transport in Ethiopia is done within the National Railway Network of Ethiopia, which currently consists of three electrified standard gauge railway lines: the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, the Awash–Weldiya Railway and the Weldiya–Mekelle Railway. Other lines are still in the planning phase.
Railway stations in Djibouti by century of opening (1 C) Railway stations in Djibouti by decade of opening (1 C) Railway stations in Djibouti by year of opening (1 C)