Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has officialy launched the Abuja – Kaduna railway line, as the first country’s standard gauge line into operation. The line will assure transport service between Federal Capital Territory and Kaduna State, ‘a corridor which has a huge potential for industries, agricultural activities and a growing labour force,’ the presiden said.
The line allows trains to run at a 100km/h speed with a 2 hours time-traveling between the two cities. It has nine stations and covers a distance of 186.5 km.
Under a EUR 780 million contract signed in 2009, the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation was selected as the contractor of the project.
The completed project is part of the railway modernization initiative by the West African country which aims at replacing the existing narrow gauge system with the wider standard gauge system, while allowing high-speed train operations on the railway network.
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