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The train left Abuja's Idu station at 6 pm and was scheduled to arrive in Kaduna's Rigasa train station by 8 pm. [9] [10] According to eyewitness accounts, the train was bombed twice before the armed bandits opened fire at the passengers. [11] Sixty-two passengers were abducted in the attack. [12]
The total cost was US$870 million. The line, which begins in Idu, 20 kilometers west of central Abuja, requires two hours of travel time for trains with a maximum speed of 100 km/h. In August 2020, NRC reported that about 50% of the revenue of its entire rail network (about 4,000 km) would be generated by the standard gauge Abuja–Kaduna line.
Kaduna is an important junction point on the existing Cape gauge railway network, where a branch line departs the Lagos–Nguru line for Kafanchan, on the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri Railway. The construction of the Abuja–Kaduna segment cost $876 million, consisting of $500 million in loans from the Exim Bank of China and the balance coming ...
Under construction; Abuja to Kaduna section operational. North Korea: Railways of the DPRK. North Macedonia: Macedonian Railways: Norway Norwegian National Rail Administration, Rail transport in Norway: 4,087 km (2,540 mi) Pakistan: To be used only for the rapid transit system, Lahore Metro [49]
Abuja Rail Mass Transit (commonly known as Abuja Light Rail) is a regional rail transport system in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. It was the first rapid transit system in the country, West Africa , and the second such system in sub-saharan Africa (after Addis Ababa Light Rail ).
Kaduna (W) junction for Abuja (0 km) completed 2014, but not enough rolling stock [7] [8] (plan B) Abuja (W) - national capital - 2016 (186 km) [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In August 2016, the new standard gauge line between Kaduna and Abuja was complete.
In August 2020, NRC reported that about 50% of the revenue of its entire rail network (about 4,000 km) would be generated by the standard gauge Abuja-Kaduna line (186 km). [18] [19] [20] That Nigerians like to take the train between the capital Abuja and the next largest city Kaduna also has very serious reasons. Indeed, the "highway" between ...
In 2019, the Nigerian government awarded a contract to the China Railway Construction Corporation to extend the Warri–Itakpe Railway to Abuja and build a new port at Warri. The railway and port would cost a total of $3.9 billion, with 15% of the funds coming from the Nigerian government, 10% from CRCC, and 75% from a Chinese bank.