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  • Ethiopia’s metre-gauge survivors

    Ethiopia’s metre-gauge survivors

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    DESPITE opening a new electrified main line in 2016, parts of the old metre-gauge Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Éthiopien still appear to have some operational trains, although passenger services on the full route ceased in 2008.  The metre-gauge line was opened between Addis Ababa and Djibouti in stages from 1902, and completed in 1917. It was…

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