This is a list of railway tunnels in Africa.

Existing

Algeria

  • Has about 46 tunnels [1]

Ghana

  • Ghana Railway Corporation Decree of 1977 presupposes tunnels [2]

Mauritania

Morocco

South Africa

Eritrea

outside Keren. But it appears that for some reason they didn't think of blowing up the rail tunnels on the Agordat-Keren line

Tanzania

Tunisia

Zambia

Proposed

Guinea

  • 21 km of tunnel(s) on proposed Simandou iron ore railway.

Morocco

Tunisia

Finance

  • Tunnels are expensive to build compared to surface tracks, especially for long tunnels due to limited access to the work site. The London cross city tunnel is reckoned at UKP 68m per km.

Expedience

  • Freeman Gordor [4]

See also

References

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