Dire Dawa
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Dire Dawa is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Oromia and Somali Region border and one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia. Dire Dawa alongside present-day Sitti Zone were a part of the Dire Dawa autonomous region stipulated in the 1987 Ethiopian Constitution until 1993 when it was split by the federal government into a separately administered chartered city.
Image: Dire Dawa Station (cropped)
Image: Dire dawa, edificio circolare
Image: Street Dire Dawa
Image: ET Dire Dawa, Ethiopia (14)
Ethio-Djibouti Railways
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The Ethio-Djibouti Railway is a metre gauge railway in the Horn of Africa that once connected Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti. The operating company was also known as the Ethio-Djibouti Railways. The railway was built in 1894–1917 to connect the Ethiopian capital city to French Somaliland. During early operations, it provided landlocked Ethiopia with its only access to the sea. After World War II, the railway progressively fell into a state of disrepair due to competition from road transport.
SLM M-series Diesel locomotive with a mixed goods/passenger train on the Holhol viaduct in 1960
SLM steam locomotive No. 1 "Lion" in 1899, the very first locomotive of the railway
Coal wagon built by Société Franco-Belge
The Addis Ababa Legehar train station.