The Nigerian Railway Corporation has said train operations from Port Harcourt to Aba will soon begin operations.
The move followed the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern-Narrow-Gauge Railway.
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, Freeborn Okhoria, disclosed this when he led the management team on an inspection of the project site in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Okhoria said, “The Ministry and the NRC have been under pressure to deliver this so that the operations can start. They are working hard to ensure that very soon the operations will start.
“The signaling communication is going to be in place. When we leave here we are going to meet and map out the timeline when those things will be delivered.
“The point machines are going to be fixed where necessary. We will work together to ensure that we deliver them.”
He said when the Port Harcourt-Aba train operation begins, the corporation would explore means of extending it to Umuahia and Enugu.
“Very soon we will start enjoying the train ride from Port Harcourt to Aba while even looking at extending to Umuahia and Enugu.
“We are looking at days, at most months, because if you don’t start running on this track, you leave it, it will go bad and vandals may take possession.
‘‘So we are now going to meet, and work out the possible plan because we have to synchronise with the operation to make sure that when they put it, it is not going to be vandalized,” he said.
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