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The list of railway stations in Cameroon includes:
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The list of railway stations in Cameroon includes:
| Order | Station name | Route(s) | Diesel Depot | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Belabo | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | Depot | ||
| 000km | Bessengué | Douala – Kumba Douala – Yaoundé | Depot | ||
| 069km | Edéa | Douala – Yaoundé | 069km [1] | ||
| -9 | Ediki | Kumba – Mbanga | |||
| 75 | Eséka | Douala – Yaoundé | Limited Depot | Start steep incline | Overweight passenger tax |
| 120 | Kumba | Douala – Kumba Kumba – Mbanga | |||
| 180 | Makak | Douala – Yaoundé | End steep incline | ||
| 700 | Mbandjock | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | |||
| 600 | Minim | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | |||
| 000 | Mbanga | Douala – Kumba Kumba – Mbanga | |||
| 000 | Nanga Eboko | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | |||
| 000 | Ngaoundal | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | |||
| 750 | Ngaoundéré Central Station | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | Depot | ||
| 400 | Obala | Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | |||
| 283km | Yaoundé | Douala – Yaoundé Ngaoundéré – Yaoundé | Depot | [2] |
(600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge plantation railway)
(1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge)
The line will be built by the Portuguese company Mota-Engil
Kribi – port (0 km)
Congo Brazzaville. Mbalam – mine (510 km)A passenger service across the standard gauge/metre gauge break of gauge near Kribi can be provided using the Swiss technology of the GoldenPass Express. This connects the mine at Mbalam with Douala port and Yaoundé the national capital. See Stadler Rail.
There are diesel depots at Douala-Bassa, Yaoundé, Bélabo and Ngaoundéré. The two-road[ clarification needed ]
This article provides a breakdown of the transportation options available in Cameroon. These options are available to citizens and tourists such as railways, roadways, waterways, pipelines, and airlines. These avenues of transport are used by citizens for personal transportation, of goods, and by tourists for both accessing the country and traveling.
The Catholic Church in Cameroon is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
Edéa is a city located along the Sanaga River in Cameroon's Littoral Region. It lies on the Douala–Yaoundé–Ngaoundéré railway line. Its population was estimated at 122,300 in 2001. There are bauxite facilities, aluminium processing facility, steel processing facility, timber facilities, paper facilities. These are primarily powered by the Edea Hydroelectric Power Station. Bananas, oil palm, and cacao are farmed nearby.
Ngaoundéré or N'Gaoundéré is the capital of the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. It had a population of 152,700 at the 2005 census. According to the film Les Mairuuwas – Maitre de l'eau produced by the University of Tromsø, the population has rapidly risen to 1,000,000 owing to mass immigration from the Central African Republic and the perceived danger from Boko Haram in northern Cameroon.
Kribi is a beach resort and sea port in Cameroon.
Mbalmayo is a town in Cameroon's Centre Region. The town had 60,091 inhabitants in 2012. It is the capital of the Nyong-et-So'o Division It is located at the banks of the Nyong river between Ebolowa and Yaoundé. It is an agricultural centre.
The African Union of Railways is an organisation under the auspices of the new African Union dealing with railways. It is similar to the International Union of Railways (UIC).
Mbalam is a place in Cameroon near the southern border with the Republic of the Congo where there are significant deposits of iron ore. The mining company is Sundance Resources Limited.
Camrail is a company operating passenger and freight traffic between the two largest cities in Cameroon and several smaller cities. The company was formed in 1999 and granted a 20-year concession to operate the Cameroon National Railway. The company is a subsidiary of French investment group Bolloré and the railway has been operated by Comazar, a subsidiary of Bolloré, since 1999. According to the Comazar website, the government of Cameroon owns the track while the rolling stock is owned by Camrail.
Rail transport in Cameroon is primarily operated by Camrail, a subsidiary of Bolloré Africa Logistics.
Iron ore production in Africa is dominated by South Africa, Mauritania and Algeria. Many countries possess iron ore deposits that are as yet untapped/unmined. Countries and companies currently involved in production are listed here; measurements are in tonnes per annum(year).
Railway stations in the Republic of the Congo (Congo) include:
Railway stations in Mozambique include:
Railway stations in Angola include:
Railway stations in Guinea include:
Railway stations in Nigeria include:
Up to 2012 Chad had no rail system. Two lines are planned to Sudan and Cameroon from the capital, with construction expected to start in February 2016 and be complete in 4 years.
The history of rail transport in Cameroon began at around the turn of the twentieth century.
The geology of Cameroon is almost universally Precambrian metamorphic and igneous basement rock, formed in the Archean as part of the Congo Craton and the Central African Mobile Zone and covered in laterite, recent sediments and soils. Some parts of the country have sequences of sedimentary rocks from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic as well as volcanic rock produced by the 1600 kilometer Cameroon Volcanic Line, which includes the still-active Mount Cameroon. The country is notable for gold, diamonds and some onshore and offshore oil and gas.
