1. Implemented by:Implemented by:
The Trains Have Arrived!
Thursday Workshop
With Ed-Efe Okogba
On August 6, 2015
The Apo meeting room on the NIAF floor

2. Background
• NIAF has supported SURE-P Railways
program since 2012:
– Rehabilitation and Modernization programs of
Western and Eastern Lines, and
– Modernization Line (Abuja/Idu – Kaduna)

3. Background – contd - 1
• Three rail projects identified:
– Western Line (Narrow Gauge): Jebba – Kano
(638km)
• including Loops, Sidings & Signalling (Lagos – Kano)
– Eastern Line (Narrow Gauge): Port-Harcourt –
Maiduguri (2119km)
• including signalling works
– Modernization Line (Standard Gauge): Idu/Abuja –
Kaduna (186km)

4. Background – contd – 2 – Railway Lines
Eastern
Line
Western
Line
Modernization
Project –
Idu/Abuja-Kaduna

5. Background – contd - 3
• Backlog rehabilitation of over 30 years
• Phase 1 rehabilitation was focused on
making sure trains moved from Lagos and
Port Harcourt in the south to Kano and
Maiduguri in the north
• An addition of new line from Abuja –
Kaduna (186km) Standard Gauge

6. Track Rehabilitation Programme - 1
• Achievement:
– 74% overall programme completion (save for
conflict zone in Maiduguri)
– passenger and freight services now
operational albeit providing minimal services:
• Western Line: 2012
• Eastern Line: 2014/15

7. Track Rehabilitation Programme - 2
• Achievement attained through:
– repairs of culverts, side drains and selected
bridges
– raising and widening of embankments,
tamping and grading to finished profile
– replacing bad rails, ballast, sleepers and
timbers
• Estimated cost of the works:
– SURE-P: 2012-2014: N75bn

8. The story in pictures…
• Some Pictures of Track Rehabilitation &
Modernization Programs
• Samples of the completed and on-going
works

9. On-going Track Relay Work - Lafia

10. Completed Track Relay Work – Lafia Stn

11. Completed Drainage/Embankment Stabilization
Work - Kafanchan

12. On-going Track Reballasting - Kafanchan

13. On-going Track Vegetation Clearing – After Imo
River

14. Part completion –
Aba Gully Erosion Retainer Walls

15. Cross Section - Protection works –
Bridge 15, Nyama, Enugu

16. Completed Track Section – PH - Enugu

17. An Inspection Train – One Loco & Coach

18. On-going Embankment Works - Gombe

19. A Track Section of the Abuja/Idu – Kaduna
Line

20. Makurdi Passenger Service Flag-off -
2015

21. Newly Luanched Passenger
Cars/Coaches

22. Freight Service Flag-off in Lagos - 2013

23. THANK YOU
Any Questions?