Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railways. The main line runs from Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to Khartoum and southwest to El Obeid via Sennar and Kosti, with extensions
Railway station in northern Sudan
Diesel locomotives at Kosti, Sudan in 2008
The Tokar–Trinkitat Light Railway
Wadi Halfa is a city in the Northern State of Sudan on the shores of Lake Nubia near the border with Egypt. It is the terminus of a rail line from Khartoum and the point where goods are transferred fr
Rail transport in Sudan
…Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railways. The main line runs from Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to Khartoum and southwest to El Obeid via Sennar and Kosti, with extensions to Nyala in Southern Darfur and Wau in Western Bahr…
A 19th-century photograph of British troops aboard a steamer connecting Wadi Halfa with Asyut during the Mahdist War.
Photo from 1910 showing the ruins of a medieval Nubian church near Wadi Halfa
Chained Sudanese prisoners carrying British baggage through Wadi Halfa in 1898.