List of tunnels in Africa
This is a list of tunnels in Africa.
Existing
Algeria
- about 46 railway tunnels [1]
Congo
- The Congo–Ocean Railway contains the notorious Bamba tunnel.
Ghana
- Ghana Railway Corporation Decree of 1977 presupposes tunnels [2]
Mauritania
- Choum Tunnel - replaced by open air deviation
Morocco
- Only one existing tunnel.[3]
- Bouskoura Tunnel Casablanca
South Africa
- Chapman's Peak Drive, Cape Town - M6.
- Cogmanskloof Tunnel, Western Cape - R62.
- Hartbeespoort Tunnel, North-West - R104.
- Hendrik Verwoerd Tunnels, Limpopo on the N1.
- Hex River Tunnels - Railway tunnels through the Hex River Mountains of the Western Cape Province.
- Huguenot Tunnel - a toll road tunnel near Paarl, also on the N1.
- J.G. Strijdom Tunnel, Mpumalanga - R36.
- Daspoort Tunnel - Daspoort Tunnel is a road tunnel on the R55 in Pretoria.
- Watervalboven Tunnel, Mpumalanga - on the N4.
- Old Van Reenen Tunnel, KwaZulu Natal - just off the N3 - S 28° 22.272 E 029° 25.782.
- Overvaal Tunnel (Oogies)
Eritrea
outside Keren. But it appears that for some reason they didn't think of blowing up the rail tunnels on the Agordat-Keren line
Tanzania
- TAZARA - 23 tunnels
Zambia
- TAZARA - 23 tunnels
Proposed
Guinea
- 21 km of tunnel(s) on proposed Simandou iron ore railway.
Morocco
- Strait of Gibraltar crossing proposed ; to
Spain
Tunisia
- Strait of Sicily Tunnel to connect Tunisia with
Italy
Finance
- Tunnels are expensive to build compared to surface tracks, especially for long tunnels due to limited access to the work site. The London cross city tunnel is reckoned at UKP 68m per km.
Expedience
- Freeman Gordor [4]
See also
References
- http://tunnelbuilder.com/Archive/Projects/Algeria.aspx
- http://ghanalegal.com/?id=3&law=474&t=ghana-laws
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