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Train station in Koudougou, Burkina Faso.

There are 622 kilometres of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 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.

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]

  1. ^ "Railway Gazette: Essential renewals must pave the way for ambitious expansion strategy". Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Railway Gazette: News in Brief". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. ^ "2008-01-01". Retrieved 22 October 2010.

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