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Lagos Soon To Become Home To Africa’s Fastest Trains – Report
Lagos now has the fastest trains in Africa, with a top speed of 330 kilometers per hour, which it recently purchased as part of its plans to launch the Red Line metro project, a 37-kilometer intracity railway system.
The 330km/h trains were purchased from Talgo Group, a Madrid-based manufacturer of high-speed passenger trains, by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Talgo Group, a Madrid-based manufacturer of high-speed passenger trains, sold the 330-KPH trains to the state.
Between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, the ‘Red Line’ rail is expected to begin commercial service. When completed, the rail network will have 11 stations and will be the first metro system in West Africa designed to transport people at high speeds.
“The 37km Red Line on completion will traverse eight stations and move passengers from Agbado to Oyingbo,” Governor Banajide Sanwo-Olu said on Wednesday.
“We are ramping up completion of the ancillary infrastructure like the train stations.”
Between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, the ‘Red Line’ rail is expected to begin commercial service.
At a public event held inside the Milwaukee facilities of Spanish train manufacturer Talgo Incorporated in the United States on Tuesday, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu completed the train acquisition deal.
Sanwo-Olu said the acquisition was in line with his administration’s commitment to the THEMES developmental agenda’s Traffic Management and Transportation.
At a public event held inside the Milwaukee facilities of Spanish train manufacturer Talgo Incorporated in the United States, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu completed the train acquisition deal.
At a public event held inside the Milwaukee facilities of Spanish train manufacturer Talgo Incorporated in the United States, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu completed the train acquisition deal.
“Part of what we have done in the last two and half years is to have what we call Integrated Urban Mass transportation system, where we will be using road infrastructure, waterway infrastructure and rail infrastructure so that we can move over 20 million Lagosians within and around the city,” he said.
“We hope that this (purchase of the trains) will be the beginning of a mutually beneficial business relationship. Providing a source of livelihood for our citizens is all about providing jobs for our people, and that is what we are doing. It is about ensuring that we can build our economy; people can move from one location to another, and businesses can grow.
