Cameroon train crash: Scores killed, hundreds injured

[David Benton]

"Crowded passenger train goes off the tracks along the route that links capital Yaounde with economic hub Douala".

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1000mm or 1064mm (cape) Gauge ?

[george matthews]

Almost certainly metre gauge. Cameroon and Nigeria could not be linked.

It's an example of another area where the best solution would be to develop SG lines in both countries. Nigeria already has a short SG line.

[johnthefireman]

I had posted several links to stories about this accident at http://friendsoftherail.com/forum/viewt ... 1e46b9addd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, in case anyone is interested.

[ExCon90]

Yes, it's meter gauge. According to the Railway Directory and Year Book for 1973, it was begun by the Germans from Douala before the First World War and extended by the French to Yaoundé and beyond after the war. The Wagons-Lits system timetables for Winter 1954 and 1967 show two trains daily in each direction, with dining service, and a 1st-class sleeper on the night train Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from Douala and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from Yaoundé, with a couchette car added by 1967 on the nights the sleeper didn't run.