| 词条 | History of rail transport in Burundi |
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This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series The history of rail transport in Burundi is limited to a now closed industrial railway, and a number of proposed railway projects that, {{as of|2012|lc=y}}, had not been implemented. Port of Bujumbura railwayFrom 1947 to 1982, there was a {{RailGauge|600mm|lk=on}} narrow gauge industrial railway within the boundaries of the port of Bujumbura on Lake Tanganyika. The railway carried only goods traffic. Its operator was Office Congolais des Chemins des fer des Grands Lacs (CFL).[1] Proposed railwaysSince around the turn of the 21st century, there have been several proposals for a railway between Burundi and nearby countries. The existing railway networks in nearby Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania use {{RailGauge|1000mm}} metre gauge, although TAZARA and other nearby countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) use the {{RailGauge|3ft6in|lk=on}} gauge leading to some potential difficulties. As early as the 1980s, the Kagera Basin Organization carried out economic feasibility studies into a would-be KBO railway system linking Burundi, Rwanda and the (DRC), but that proposed system never came to fruition.[2] In 2000, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) launched the Great Lakes railway project involving both rail and water transport on Lakes Tanganyika, Kivu, and Edward connecting Burundi, the DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. The aim of that project was to improve connections between the Great Lakes and the southern African {{RailGauge|3ft6in}} rail network.[2][3] As with the would-be KBO railway system, the COMESA proposal was not implemented. By 2004, the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority, based in Mombasa, Kenya, was promoting a project to link Kisangani with Mombasa using a new line from Kasese to Kisangani, with feeder lines linking Kasese with Goma and then via Bukavu to Kigali and Bujumbura.[2][3] At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing metre gauge Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.[4] See also{{portal|Trains|Burundi}}
References1. ^{{Robinson-WorldRailAtlas-7|page=13}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite book |title=Investment Opportunities in the Northern Corridor with emphasis in Transport Infrastructure |date=7–8 June 2004 |publisher=Transit Transport Coordination Authority of the Northern Corridor|location=Kampala, Uganda |page=16 |url=http://www.oecd.org/investment/investmentfordevelopment/34879173.pdf }} 3. ^1 {{cite book |last=Bullock |first=Richard |title=AICD Background Paper 17 - Off Track: Sub-Saharan African Railways |date=November 2009 |place=Washington, DC |publisher=The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank |url=http://www.infrastructureafrica.org/system/files/BP17%20Railways_maintxt_3.pdf }} 4. ^{{cite web|title=China to Assist Rwanda|url=http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2006/09/china-to-assist-rwanda/|work=Railways Africa website|publisher=Railways Africa|accessdate=21 September 2012}} External links{{commonscat-inline|Transport in Burundi}}
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