The Rwanda Standard Gauge Railway is a standard gauge railway (SGR) system, under development, linking the country to the neighboring countries of Tanzania and Uganda. It is intended to ease the transfer of goods between the Indian Ocean ports of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, and the Rwandan capital Kigali. The system is expected to link, in the future, to Rwanda's two other neighbors, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of the East African Railway Master Plan. With no previously existing railway network, Rwanda is developing its railway system from scratch.[1] The project is dependent on the construction of the Tanzanian and Ugandan SGR lines to the Rwandan border, which have not been completed as of October 2023.
Location
The railway system would consist of several major sections: This section, measuring 150 km, is the Rwandan half of the Isaka–Kigali Standard Gauge Railway, a joint railway between the governments of Rwanda and Tanzania.[2] Construction was originally scheduled to begin in October 2018, but has been postponed as the Tanzanian link to the Rwandan border was delayed.