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section La Loma – Puerto Drummond, with 192 kilometres (119 mi), transports coal. Also from July 2003, the section Bogotá - Belencito, with 257 kilometres (160 mi), is operating on the Atlantic concession transporting cement. In the Pacific concession the section between La Paila and
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Railway concessions were awarded on July 27, 1999, to Ferrocarriles del Norte de Colombia S.A. (FENOCO), as the Atlantic concession, and on November 4, 1998, to the Sociedad Concesionaria de la Red Férrea del Pacífico SA, later named Tren de Occidente SA as the Pacific concession. Since 1991 the
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of which 2,611 kilometres (1,622 mi) are in use. The state-owned railway company, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia (National Railways of Colombia), was liquidated in the 1990s. Since then passenger rail service in Colombia is provided only as tourist
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In November 2009, the Colombian government set up a new team of consultants and specialists to oversee the estimated $ 440m Sistema Ferroviario Central railway concession. The project involves building a 1,050 kilometres (650 mi) railway from
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La Segunda Mula de Hierro: Historia de los Ferrocarriles Colombianos a través de sus locomotora / The Second Iron Mule: History of the Colombian Railroads through their Locomotives
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port on the Atlantic coast. Part of the proposed project are the construction of the La Dorada stretch, renovating the stretches connecting the districts of La Dorada and
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of Chinese manufactured goods to the Americas easier. Colombia hopes China's growing economic presence in the region will further the ratification of the
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on February 3, 2014, plans to allow for the rehabilitation of two narrow gauge railway lines (one, 750 kilometres (470 mi) line from
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Buenaventura - Córdoba - Dagua - Yumbo - Cali - Palmira - Buga - Tuluá - Bugalagrande - Zarzal - Cartago and Cali - Jamundí - Popayán
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is looking into constructing a 220 kilometres (140 mi) stretch of railway that would complete the link between the port cities
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There is a US$ 600 million investment programme planned for 2008 and studies for a US$ 350 million new line between
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http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/news/cs-america/single-view/view/colombian-railway-revival-gets-underway.html
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Pereira - Puerto Caldas - Manizales and Pereira - Quimbaya - Armenia (connection with FC Pacífico)
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has been underway for years, and is hoped to open in 2028. Construction started in October 2020.
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has a total length of 3,304 kilometres (2,053 mi). There are 150 kilometres (93 mi) of
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A £47m agreement between the Colombian Ministry of Transport and UK Deputy Prime Minister
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Girardot - Ibagué (connection with FC Armenia) - Chicoral - Espinal - Villavieja - Neiva
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Documents and clippings about Colombia Railway and Navigation Company Ltd (London)
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Armenia (connection with FC Pacífico) - Ibagué (connection with FC Tolima)
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and Saboya. Under this contract sections of the Atlantic network
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Narrow Gauge in Colombia: Railways and Steam Locomotives
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is the only city thus far (2023) to have built a metro (
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coasts. This railway alternative would compete with the
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and a second, 300 kilometres (190 mi) line from
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Arias de Greiff, Gustavo; Dewhurst, Peter K (2006).
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Index

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia

Cerrejón
Uribia, La Guajira
Track gauge
Narrow gauge

Colombian
railway
standard gauge
Cerrejón
Tren del Cerrejón
Puerto Bolivar
Bahia Portete
3 ft
narrow gauge
steam trains
Bogotá savanna railway
Bogotá
Zipaquirá
Barrancabermeja
Puerto Berrio
Puerto Parra
Buenaventura
La Dorada
Chiriguaná
Santa Marta
Buenos Aires
Puerto Berrío
Envigado

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