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After what looked like it has been forgotten, the federal government, at last, remembered the Eastern corridor of the Nigeria Railway in its rail rehabilitation project. President Muhammadu Buhari was reported to have performed the groundbreaking ceremony for commencement of work on the Eastern Corridor, last Tuesday.
But unlike other railway projects in different parts of the country that are on Standard Gauge, such as the Lagos-Kano line, Abuja-Kaduna line, Lagos-Ibadan line, Warri-Itakpe line, etc., the Eastern Railway Corridor will be on a narrow gauge rail track.
The Eastern Corridor stretches from Bonny Ports to Port Harcourt, with a spur to Owerri, to link the Aba- Enugu rail line, other spurs to Abakaliki and Awka, before linking up to Makurdi, Lafia, Kaduna, Bauchi, Gombe, and finally to Maidugiri, the Borno State capital.
ICYMI: Good, ugly experiences on new Lagos-Ibadan train service Reporter’s diary
Published 13 December 2020
On Monday, the Nigerian Railway Corporation commenced operations for the Lagos-Ibadan railway, a double-track standard gauge rail covering a distance of 156km in two hours and 40 minutes. JESUSEGUN ALAGBE took a return trip on the train during the week and shares his experience
Curious to take my first-ever train ride in Nigeria, I started researching online on Monday how to book a ticket and where to board the newly-deployed Diesel Multiple Unit, a multiple-unit train powered by onboard diesel engines, from Lagos to Ibadan.
This was some hours after news spread that the Nigerian Railway Corporation had commenced operations for the Lagos-Ibadan railway, a standard gauge rail covering a distance of 156km.