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ACCLAIM FOR ERITREAN LOCOS

Posted on 16 May 2008 by Railways Africa Editor

According to visiting Italian railway authorities Stefano Petini and Roberto Vasilichi, Eritrea should be a major tourism destination “as it is endowed with spectacular landscape and rich natural resources, coupled with classic locomotives.” Petini, who has been in Eritrea five times previously, has high praise for the reviving of the long-defunct railway, largely thanks to [...] [...more]

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EN ROUTE TO THE SUDAN

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Railways Africa Editor

Eritrea’s enthusiastic railway builders, who have literally done the impossible by restoring the117km, 950mm gauge Asmara-Mts’iwa (Red Sea port) line in forbidding mountainous territory with the barest minimum of resources, have ambitious aims. The first stage is to rebuild the 124km section west of Asmara (the capital at an elevation of 2,394m, ie higher than [...] [...more]

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