Rail transport in Burkina Faso

There are 622 kilometres of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway in Burkina Faso, which run from Kaya to the border with Côte d'Ivoire and is part of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway. As of June 2024, 'Sitarail' does not operate a passenger train to Abidjan.

Train station in Koudougou, Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is landlocked, but the railway to Abidjan provides rail access to a port. Links to railways in Ghana and the port of Takoradi have been repeatedly proposed.^[1][2][3]

Stations

Bobo-Dioulasso station

Banfora station

The following towns of Burkina Faso are served by the country's railways:

• - - border
• Niangoloko
• Banfora
• Peni
• Bobo-Dioulasso
• Sala
• Koudougou
• Bingo
• Ouagadougou (national capital)
• Ziniaré (service suspended)
• Kaya terminus

Construction resuming

• (for 3MTpa manganese - 2014)?
• Kaya (terminus)^[4]
• Dori (approx. 100 km of the extension from Kaya to Dori; visible on Google Earth dated 15/2/07)
• Markoye
• Tambao (manganese),^[5] near Niger/Mali borders^[6][7]

Proposed

• (1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge gauge)
• Tamale, Ghana
• Navrongo
• Bolgatanga
• Paga
• Border (Ghana-Burkina Faso)
• Dakola
• Pô
• Bagré
• Zabre
• Tenkodogo
• Manga
• Ouagadougou - national capital - junction with Sahel Railway

See also

• Railway stations in Burkina Faso
• Railway stations in Ghana

Proposed

2011

On 31 November 2011, an agreement was signed to build a new international railway connecting Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Benin.^[8] See AfricaRail.

2014

Pan African Minerals to develop the Tambao manganese project at a cost of up to $1 billion. The manganese mine is in the north of Burkina Faso, near the border with Niger and Mali, containing perhaps 100 million tonnes of the metal (used in steel production). "The Tamboa project is an integrated project with a mining component and an infrastructure component, notably through the roads, railway and the port", said Romanian billionaire Frank Timis. "The project will happen in the next three years and will require investment of nearly $1 billion".^[9][10]

2018

Ghana and Ivory Coast sign a deal to develop a through rail link.

Ghana and Burkina Faso sign deal for link Link

Maps

• UN Map-Archived 4 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• UNHCR Map - Archived 18 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine

Gallery

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  Buffer-and-screw coupler 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.

See also

• Rail transport in Ghana; Ghana Railway Corporation
• Railway stations in Niger
• Railway stations in Ivory Coast
• Transport in Burkina Faso
• West Africa Regional Rail Integration