The answer to all of the above questions is no. The only reason I have heard so far is that we are building a new Standard Gauge Railway because the current tracks cannot accommodate faster trains.

has officially inaugurated the 97.6km Tema - Mpakadan standard-gauge railway (SGR), the first phase of the 1000km Ghana - Burkina Faso Railway Interconnectivity Project, and Ghana’s first SGR. The ...

Burundi, the poorest country in the world by GDP per capita, stands to gain the most from the new electrified single-track railway, which will replace the old metre-gauge line between Tabora and ...

The state's two-foot gauge railway system was made of tracks less than half the width of standard gauge railways. These narrow tracks were cheaper and easier to build while allowing trains to ...