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Nigeria May 2025

I drive 345 stock. Management want (and the driving policy states) that 2 seconds is required between stopping and door release to check for the items you stated. However, it can be done perfectly safely with the clock timer on the HMI still stating 0 seconds as these can be checked before you...

I won't add any more to this chat with regards to Nigeria in general, as it's definitely going off on a tangent from the HSTs in Nigeria... But Abuja has two rail services. They have DMUs operating on the light rail / metro (two routes) and they have Chinese stock on SGR to Kaduna. I was there...

This is very reasonable price in my opinion. You can pay that much just to leave the airport by train to the city the airport mainly serves in some places, but you are getting that plus a 2 hour or so intercity journey.

Abuja Metro (May 2025)

Nope. I caught the Abuja metro about 2 weeks ago and they are using DMUs. I have covered almost all available track in Nigeria in the last 2 weeks which includes the Abuja Metro, Lagos Red and Blue Line, Standard Guage Lagos to Ibadan, and Abuja to Kaduna, and finally the Cape Guage routes...

The Abuja metro is using 4 car DMUs (they look/feel newly built). It feels more like a.suburban railway though than a metro but the difference in a lot of places in the world between metro and suburban railway is becoming very hazy. The timetable is very limited but the trips are free.

Another HST photo from Nigeria (May 2025)

I'm led to believe new rolling stock will make an appearance at some point. Whether that replaces what they already have, or supplements it, remains to be seen.

I can do all of that but not on a public forum (sorry). I've dropped you a message.

I don't believe they offer flexible tickets either as each ticket comes with a seat reservation. The only tickets that are flexible (and without a seat reservation, which oddly isn't mandatory) is Interrail/Eurail and FIP coupons. Trains are usually not particularly busy so just book when you...

This is absolutely crazy talk from a country that is financially struggling! It would be far cheaper to build a standard gauge link from the Swedish border to where ever you want to in Finland than to start re-adjusting every single piece of track in Finland (the population density up in...

The latest country I visited was Nigeria (May 2025). I travelled on the following routes: Abuja to Kaduna (Standard Gauge) Port Harcourt to Aba (Cape Guage) Lagos to Ibadan (Standard Guage) Lagos Red Line (Standard Guage HST operations) Lagos Commuter Rail (Cape Guage) Here are a few example...

Nigeria - Red Line I visited Lagos between 8th and 13th May 2025. The Red Line shares the Standard Gauge track with the Lagos to Ibadan trains (which was Chinese built) but the stations are not shared (except for Agbado as the Red Line station is still under construction). This set up results...

Hi everyone, I currently have a Facebook, Instagram and YouTube* page almost entirely dedicated to railway photography from around the World. These are all my personal photographs from my 102 countries I have so far visited to experience a passenger train trip. I will also add photos to this...