Accra Central Station is the main railway station in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
Accra Central Station | |
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 The station in 2019 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Ghana |
| Coordinates | 5°32′55″N 0°12′39″W / 5.5487°N 0.2109°W |
| Operated by | Ghana Railway Corporation |
| History | |
| Opened | 1910 |
The station was completed in 1910, to serve the new Accra to Mangoase line, with railway offices built nearby. Prior to its construction, the area was a marshy valley. The line was steadily extended, and reached Kumasi in 1923. As a single track leads north from the station, capacity was a problem, but the station was not reconstructed, and from the 1950s, traffic began to decline.[1]
By 2011, the station had no service; it was instead used by market traders, while some people used abandoned trains as housing.[2] In January 2019, a new once-daily service to Tema was introduced.[3]
References
edit- ^ Tsey, Christian (1986). Gold Coast railways : the making of a colonial economy, 1879-1929 (PDF). Glasgow: University of Glasgow. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "GRDA to begin demolition along railway lines soon". Modern Ghana. 21 January 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "See the schedule for the new Accra-Tema Train Service". Daily Graphic. 29 January 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.