Des passagers font la line put monter à bord du train à Thiès, au Sénégal, le 1er septembre 2023.- Copyright © africanews CARMEN ABD ALI/AFP or licensors Last upgraded: 14 hours ago Senegal on Friday momentarily restored into service a long-closed train line to take worshippers to a yearly spiritual celebration. 3 trains, each efficient in bring 240 travelers, are being released on a 130-kilometre line in between Thies and the holy town of Touba in main Senegal, the GTS train business stated. Lots of individuals, a few of them dancing, collected by the track at Thies to enjoy the postponed departure of the very first four-carriage train, in old-fashioned green and grey livery, an AFP press reporter saw. “People are psychological about the train. All the seats for today’s departures have actually currently been offered,” stated GTS employer Samba Ndiaye. “Passengers are going to take a trip in convenience and understanding what time they’ll show up.” The service will run in between Friday and next Wednesday, assisting to alleviate roadways blocked by automobiles and buses heading to Touba for the Grand Magal trip. The celebration is staged by the Mouride Brotherhood, among Senegal’s 4 orders of Sufi Islam. The short-term train service, which likewise has stops at Diourbel and Mbacke, is existing as a foretaste of long-term repair of train traffic. The line, closed in 2018, becomes part of a network that France constructed to connect its nests in West Africa in the 19th and early 20th century. Absence of track upkeep triggered the network in Senegal to fall under disuse– a minute that began to alter in December 2021 when a brand-new 36-km line was inaugurated connecting the capital Dakar with the brand-new city of Diamniadio. Associated short articles
Senegal restores railway for spiritual celebration
