The only Train.
Running from Ebute Metta-Yaba-Sango Ota was the only operational Rail Line route as what most people can conclude.
Other tracks and routes have been left abandoned, neglected and seemed forever impossible tthat Trains will connect the vast land scape of Nigeria again.
The Story.
The first Rail Road in Nigeria was constructed by the British colonial
government in 1898.
By October 3, 1912 the Lagos government Rail Way and the Kano- Baro Rail Way were amalgamated, thus began the Government Department of Railways. After the passing of the Nigeria Railway Corporation act of 1955, the Nigeria Railway Corporation was born.
Abandoned.
Lack of maintenance of Railway assets like tracks and locomotives, the Nigeria Railway Corporation was left for dead from the 1970s to the 2000s, with scanty or no operations in most route.
A bright future begins.
Since 2012-2013, passenger service returned to the Lagos- Kano route as the Government gives attention to the NRC with some foreign assistance.
Although the service may be laden with some challenges and imperfections for now but the big news is that soon, the Trains are goin to be linked to the sea ports in Lagos and Port Harcourt for effective movement of passengers, goods and fuel from south to north of the Country.
As time goes on, the Nigeria Railway Corporation would begin to fulfill it's full obligations to support land transportation in Nigeria.
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