Ethiopia

Country Details

See Wikipedia

Railway System

National Railway Operator

Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC)

See Rail Transport in Ethopia

Gauges

• Metre and Standard

New lines are standard gauge replacing the older metre gauge.

Electrification

• 25 kV 50 Hz for the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway

• 750 V DC overhead for Addis Ababa LRT

Rule of the road

Left;

Maps

• Online: Railways Through Europe - out of date
• Printed: World Rail Atlas - North, East and Central Africa by Neil Robinson - out of date

Timetable

• Online: unofficial timetable information is available at Fahrplancenter. Note that this may be substantially out of date.
• Printed: summary timetables are available in some editions of the European Rail Timetable.

Information is available at the Man in Seat 61.

Trams/LRT Systems

Addis Ababa has a 2 line, 32 km, standard gauge Light Rail System run by the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC).

See UrbanRail for system diagram.

Recent and Future Changes

Recent Changes

DETAILS

Future Changes

Ethiopia aims to build a 5,000 km network of standard gauge railways.

See the Railways section in Transport in Ethiopia.

Obscure and Sparse Passenger Services

None known