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If you had been thinking that rail travel is dead and buried in Nigeria, then you got another thought coming because that is not true – not with the current drive of the federal government to resuscitate rail transportation throughout the length and breadth of the country; and then, we’re talking of super-fast rail systems as you see in developed countries, not the slow and rickety rail-trains you’d always known.
Whatever, Lagos State is one among many states in Nigeria working hard to bring back the glory of the rail transport system, and to necessitate dependence of rail travel as it used to be in decades gone by. But still talking of Lagos, let us examine the places you can visit through a rail transport from Lagos, and those places in Nigeria that have a direct rail transport to Lagos.
Rail travel from Lagos to other parts of Nigeria
· From Ebute-Meta to Kano – In November 2014, the federal government resuscitated the transportation of petroleum products from Lagos to Kano, and a train with 20 wagons carrying 900,000 litres of petroleum products (equivalent to 27 road tankers) left Lagos for Kano. Over 30 tankers of diesel left Ebute-Meta via trains to Kaduna this same month. But this is not limited to cargo trains alone, numerous passenger trains have been leaving Lagos to Kano and Kaduna among other northern destinations. On the trip to Kano, it is estimated that the train might stop at major terminals at Abeokuta, Ibadan, Osogbo, Ilorin, Minna, and Kaduna before arriving Kano.
· From Lagos to Jebba – The Lagos-Jebba train trip is also now perfected to allow passengers to move from Lagos to Jebba in Niger State via train travel. A lot of traders dealing in physical goods will like this because there is a lot of space to pack goods within a train from Lagos to Niger State in the northern part of the country, from where passengers could easily get into Abuja.
Rail travel from other parts of the country to Lagos
· From Kaduna to Lagos – It is possible to travel from various parts of northern Nigeria to Lagos, the most commercialized city in the country. When taking off from the Kaduna Railway Station to Lagos, the journey by train lasts approximately 650 minutes – or 10 hours and 50 minutes, but it might be something you’d enjoy if you could make the most of your time on the trip.
· From Abuja to Lagos – If you are in Abuja the FCT, you can easily board a train on a direct trip to Lagos without any hassles because the federal government has made it possible for passengers to embark on such trips from the Nigerian capital.
· Lagos to Port-Harcourt – You can take a train trip from Lagos to Port-Harcourt and some other eastern parts of Nigeria such as Enugu and Aba and beyond. Traders from the eastern part of the country coming into Lagos with lots of commercial goods can come by train if they wish to without much difficulties.
Whatever, Lagos State is one among many states in Nigeria working hard to bring back the glory of the rail transport system, and to necessitate dependence of rail travel as it used to be in decades gone by. But still talking of Lagos, let us examine the places you can visit through a rail transport from Lagos, and those places in Nigeria that have a direct rail transport to Lagos.
Rail travel from Lagos to other parts of Nigeria
· From Ebute-Meta to Kano – In November 2014, the federal government resuscitated the transportation of petroleum products from Lagos to Kano, and a train with 20 wagons carrying 900,000 litres of petroleum products (equivalent to 27 road tankers) left Lagos for Kano. Over 30 tankers of diesel left Ebute-Meta via trains to Kaduna this same month. But this is not limited to cargo trains alone, numerous passenger trains have been leaving Lagos to Kano and Kaduna among other northern destinations. On the trip to Kano, it is estimated that the train might stop at major terminals at Abeokuta, Ibadan, Osogbo, Ilorin, Minna, and Kaduna before arriving Kano.
· From Lagos to Jebba – The Lagos-Jebba train trip is also now perfected to allow passengers to move from Lagos to Jebba in Niger State via train travel. A lot of traders dealing in physical goods will like this because there is a lot of space to pack goods within a train from Lagos to Niger State in the northern part of the country, from where passengers could easily get into Abuja.
Rail travel from other parts of the country to Lagos
· From Kaduna to Lagos – It is possible to travel from various parts of northern Nigeria to Lagos, the most commercialized city in the country. When taking off from the Kaduna Railway Station to Lagos, the journey by train lasts approximately 650 minutes – or 10 hours and 50 minutes, but it might be something you’d enjoy if you could make the most of your time on the trip.
· From Abuja to Lagos – If you are in Abuja the FCT, you can easily board a train on a direct trip to Lagos without any hassles because the federal government has made it possible for passengers to embark on such trips from the Nigerian capital.
· Lagos to Port-Harcourt – You can take a train trip from Lagos to Port-Harcourt and some other eastern parts of Nigeria such as Enugu and Aba and beyond. Traders from the eastern part of the country coming into Lagos with lots of commercial goods can come by train if they wish to without much difficulties.