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In Ethiopia, the state-owned Ethiopian Railway Corporation represents the owner of the railway. The Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Rail Transport S.C., a bi-national public company headquartered in Addis Ababa, was formed in 2017 to operate the railway. It is owned by the governments of Ethiopia (75% share) and Djibouti (25% share).
The Ethio-Djibouti Railway is a 1,000 mm ( 3 ft 38 in) gauge railway built in 1897–1917. The line connected the new Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa (1886) to the Port of Djibouti in French Somaliland, providing landlocked Ethiopia with railway access to the sea.
Ethiopian Railway, commonly known as ER, full name Ethiopian Railway Corporation, is the national railway operator of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, under the regulation of the Ministry of Transport. ERC operates passenger and freight transport. Founded on 28 November 2007 (regulation 141/2007) as a quasi-public corporation to ...
Top speed. 80 km/h (50 mph) [ 2] System map. The Addis Ababa Light Rail ( Amharic: የአዲስ አበባ ቀላል ባቡር, romanized : Ye’Adīsi Abeba k’elali Baburi) is a light rail system in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [ 3][ 4] It is the first light rail and rapid transit in eastern and sub-saharan Africa. [ 3][ 5][ 6] A 17-kilometre (11 ...
The railway of 759 kilometres (472 mi) length was considered to cost around US$3.5b (US$4m per km of railway) while the Exim Bank of China facilitated a package, that resulted in loans of about US$2.5b in total for the Ethiopian section of the railway plus another US$500m for the Djiboutian section. [11]
The Edmondson railway ticket was a system for recording the payment of railway fares and accounting for the revenue raised, introduced in the 1840s. [ 1] It is named after its inventor, Thomas Edmondson, a trained cabinet maker, who became a station master on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in England. [ 1]
Current railway stations in Ethiopia are served by standard gauge railways of the National Railway Network of Ethiopia which is mostly under construction, except the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway. Other stations were built for the in 2018 still operating metre gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railways, although this railway has officially been superseded ...
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