The Sahel Train is an electrified,
metre gauge railway and
suburban rail
Commuter rail or suburban rail is a Passenger train, passenger rail service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting Commuting, commuters to a Central business district, central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter town ...
line with trains serving
Sousse
Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...
and
Mahdia
Mahdia ( ') is a Tunisian coastal city with 76,513 inhabitants, south of Monastir, Tunisia, Monastir and southeast of Sousse.
Mahdia is a provincial centre north of Sfax. It is important for the associated fish-processing industry, as well as w ...
, with a spur to
Monastir, in
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...
.
The line has overhead electrification at 25 kV, 50 Hz. Including a triangular junction west of Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir, the line is mostly double track. However, south of the large multi-platform station at Moknine, the line becomes single track with a limited number of passing loops at stations including Mahdia tourist-Zone and Téboulba.
Stations
The line's stations are, working southwards:
* Sousse - Bab Jadid
* Sousse - Mohamed V
* Sousse South
* Sousse Industrial Zone
*
Sahline
*
Sahline Sebkha
*
Hotels Monastir
*
Skanes-Monastir airport station
*
La Faculté
*
Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir
* Monastir Industrial Zone
* Khniss - Bembla
* Ksiba Bennane
* Bouhjar
* Lamta
* Sayada
* Ksar Hellal Industrial Zone
* Ksar Hellal
* Moknine Gribaa
* Moknine
* Téboulba Industrial Zone
* Téboulba
* Bekalta
* Baghdadi
* Mahdia tourist-Zone
* Sidi Messaoud Simes
* Borj Arif
* Mahdia Ezzahra
*
Gare Mahdia
Gare Mahdia is a railway station in Mahdia, Tunisia, forming the southern terminus of the electrified, metre-gauge Sahel Metro line. It is operated by the .
Trains from the station run north to Monastir and Sousse
Sousse, Sūsah , or Souss ...
Gallery
File:Sousse Bab Jedid train station.JPG, Sousse Bab Jedid.
File:Monastir train station.JPG, Monastir.
File:Arret Mahdia Zone Turistique2.JPG, Arret Mahdia Zone Turistique.
File:Moknine25.jpg, Monkine station.
File:Ksibet El Mediouni-Bennane Metro Station 1.JPG, Ksibet El Mediouni.
File:Электричка на перегоне близ города Махдия.JPG, A train runs near the city of Mahdia.
File:Métro du Sahel, gare de Monastir, 5 novembre 2016.jpg, Train in Monastir station
File:SNCFT Hyundai Rotem EMU Sahline Sebkha.jpg, Train in Sahline
References
* Timetables
External links
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Railway lines in Tunisia
Passenger rail transport in Tunisia
Metre-gauge railways in Tunisia
Regional rail