Africa - other countries

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This page provides a summary of countries and territories in Africa without individual pages. They are thought by the compilers to have no passenger rail services, and often no operational railways at all. We would be grateful for any updates.

Fahrplancenter provides some information for some countries listed below.

Country Status
Bénin no known passenger service
Burundi no known railway
Cape Verde Islands no known railway
Central African Republic no known railway
Chad no known railway
Comoros no known passenger service
Equatorial Guinea no known passenger service
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Rovos Rail cruise trains cover all of the main lines of Eswatini railways - see also Eswatini Railways and Wikipedia article
Gambia no known railway
Guinea Bissau no known passenger service
Lesotho no known passenger service
Libya no known railway
New Caledonia (France) passenger service ceased in the twentieth century and a lot of the railway was obliterated by new roads
Niger no known railway
Réunion (France) Pre-covid 2 railway museums existed. It is unknown whether they reopened
Rwanda no known passenger service
São Tomé & Príncipe no known railway
Seychelles no known railway
Sierra Leone no known passenger service
Somalia no known passenger service
South Sudan no known passenger service
Togo no known passenger service
Western Sahara short section of Mauritania's SNIM line; no other known railways