Overview
The project of developing 500km of railway tracks in and from the capital city of Khartoum was in addition to the maintenance of previous lines and the provision of a number of locomotives and wagons, workshops, places of training, technical assistance, increasing lighting devices, communications, increasing maneuver stations and strengthening rail bridges.
This project, to which ADFD contributed a soft loan of AED 36 million in 1977, played a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency of transportation and facilitating the movement of goods and people to and from the capital and between other cities in the country. Expansion of the railways was within the framework of a comprehensive government plan to upgrade all infrastructures, taking into account the population increase in Khartoum and the growing economic activities around the country.
