Talk:Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

765 mm vs 750 mm gauge
Please see Talk:Matadi–Kinshasa Railway and User talk:Michael Johnson. Peter Horn User talk 15:47, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

About network length per gauge
95.84.60.34 (talk) 11:33, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

125 km of 1000 mm This is Kisangani - Ubundu line. It's very inlikely it was "transformed to 1067 mm (3½ ft) gauge in 1955" because this line doesn't connected with the rest of the network. It's clear enought the reffered site http://www.bck-kdl.be has mixed it up with the Kindu - Kabalo – Kalemie line which was really converted from 1000 to 1067 mm in 1955 to avoid break of gauge with the newly constructed Kamina - Kabalo section.

3621 km vs 3987 km of 1067 mm Let's calculate a sum of known 1067 mm lines:

Sakania - Bukama 719 km (http://www.bck-kdl.be)

Bukama - Ilebo 1123 km

Kindu -  Kongolo 355 km

Kongolo - Kabalo 117 km

Kabalo - Kamina 447 km

Kabalo - Kalemie 273 km

Tenke - Dilolo 522 km

Matadi-Kinshasa 396 km with branches (Wikipedia)

=== Total 3952 km

We nearly got the "1996" length. The 35 km "deficit" is expected - we have not counted some short branches in Katanga. The "2002" value looks very strange - there's no way to do reasonable exclusion from the list above to get this number. All of these lines are either operational or planned to rehabilitation, therefore they should be counted in the network length.

-- --AdrianintheUK (talk) 15:18, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Adding to the above: The Jim Fergusson sheet, now linked on the published page, has:

Matadi-Kinshasa could be 403km rather than 396km, depending upon the line beyond Matadi to Ango Ango.

Misundu (Sakania) - Bukama at 710km rather than 719km.

Kongolo - Kabalo at 86km rather than 117km.

I cannot arrive at the 1996 length or 2002 length from the raw data. There are numerous branches, freight sidings and some diverted/replacement routes. Taking it link by link:

Ango Ango - Matadi: 7km

Matadi - Kinshasa East: 366km

Kinshasa East - port: 2km

Mwala Kinsende - Mbanza-Ngungu: 15km

mainline junction - N'djili Airport: 13km

Kindi - Kabalo: 441km

Kabalo - Kalemie: 273km

Kabalo - Kamina: 447km

Llebo - Kamina: 978km

Kamina - Tenke: 363km

Tenke - Angola border: 522km

Tenke - Lubumbashi: 237km

Lubumbashi - Misundu: 255km

which totals 3,919km

possibly add in N'Dolo - Kinshasa West - Kinsuka Pompe: 13km

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Italic text== 1520mm ??? ==

"Kamina - Lubumbashi section will be use track gauge in July 2019 and fully electrified". Source? It doesn't look it can be true. 1520mm is the Russian gauge and currently there are no tracks of such gauge in Africa at all. The standard (1435mm) gauge is a bit more possible, but again currently nearly all tracks in DRC itself and neighbor countries are 1067mm and conversion of the short section will have a big disadvantage. 79.126.71.248 (talk) 05:13, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * That was added on 3 May 2019 and never had any citation. It seems very unlikely. Johnragla (talk) 07:03, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

This is the text of the Bloomberg Press Release from 2019, no reference to Russian / 1,520mm gauge. AdrianintheUK (talk) 14:37, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

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