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Rail Transport in
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(SNCFT) * Société des transports de Tunis, manages commuter trains of the
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area including metro light rail and TGM in
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Sahel Metro The Sahel Train is an electrified, metre gauge railway and suburban rail line with trains serving Sousse and Mahdia, with a spur to Monastir, in Tunisia. The line has overhead electrification at 25 kV, 50 Hz. Stations The line's stations ...
, company and electric train line
Sousse Sousse or Soussa ( ar, سوسة, ; Berber:''Susa'') 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 ...
- Monastir-
Mahdia Mahdia ( ar, المهدية ') is a Tunisian coastal city with 62,189 inhabitants, south of 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 ...
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Lézard rouge The Lézard Rouge (French for "Red Lizard") is a Heritage railway, historic Tunisian train, once the property of the Bey of Tunis,Simms, Wilfrid F., "The Railways of Tunisia," (1997) but now used for tourists. It runs from Metlaoui to Redeyef and ...
, a historical tourist train


Electrification

* 25 kV AC
Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...
to the suburbs of Borj Cédria and
Riadh Riadh is a town in Tunisia, near the capital city of Tunis. Transport In June 2012, an electrified railway service opened from the capital city of Tunis. See also * Rail transport in Tunisia Rail Transport in Tunisia is provided by: * Tunisian ...
(2012)


Railway links to adjacent countries

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Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
- railways under construction -
break-of-gauge With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge (the distance between the rails, or between the wheels of trains designed to run on those rails) meets a line of a different gauge. Trains and rolling stock generally cannot ...
- / until gauge conversion (some gauge would need to be converted to ).


See also

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Economy of Tunisia The economy of Tunisia is in the process of being liberalized after decades of heavy state direction and participation in the country's economy. Prudent economic and fiscal planning has resulted in moderate but sustained growth for over a dec ...
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Transport in Tunisia Tunisia has a number of international airports to service its sizable tourist trade. Tunis is the center of the transport system as the largest city having the largest port and a light transit system. Railways Tunisia inherited much of its ra ...
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Railway stations in Tunisia Railway stations in Tunisia include: (stations grouped by lines) Maps UNHCR Atlas Map Stations served Existing (standard gauge 1435 mm - to the north) (narrow gauge 1000 mm - to the south) * Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir Prop ...


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