Baro-Kano Railway Station

Baro-Kano railway built in 1912, Serving as the main key rail station of North Nigeria, from Baro, Niger state and Kano state. The first railway built in Nigeria was Lagos railway in 1912 by the British colonial and merged with the Baro-Kano railway.

In 1893, the construction of the railway began, from lagos-ibadan railway and runs through the north. The Northern Nigeria rail station started in 1907 which is the Baro-Kano and complete in 1911 joining to the northwards in Minna line. but in 1920 the Jebba bridge was completed and the railway was constructed on the bridge in 1921.[1][2][3][4]

1908-1915

As of 1908 to 1915 British authority began operating the railway station in Northern Nigeria, the expertise recruited, had challenges and how it was managed which the western railroad technology in tropical latitude being quite challenging and problematic in the country as of the old and new innovative tools. In an recent efforts of bringing back train on track to of a view in large scale railway transfer to Nigeria technology from Sino-china.[5]

The Baro-Kano Railway as an open line anticipated and also increase the payment amount as interest on the railway loans, with also increase in expenditure and small department to deal with the all masses of technical work and increase expenditure on police, posts, telegraphs and sanitation which totally amounts £246,000/£365,000.[6]

Offa Ilorin railroad

The Offa and Ilorin railroad also started in 1898 after British colonial established the first rail and one of the oldest gateway of Northern Nigeria railway.[7]

Notes
  1. "Lagos Railway | Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  2. Images, Historical Railway (2017-04-13), Nigeria Railways - Baro-Kano Railway 4-8-0 steam locomotive Nr. 10 "Emir of Bida" (North British Locomotive Works 19643 / 1908), retrieved 2020-03-07
  3. Oyemakinde, Wale (1974). "Railway Construction and Operation in Nigeria, 1895-1911: Labour Problems and Socio-Economic Impact". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 7 (2): 303–324. ISSN 0018-2540. JSTOR 41857015.
  4. NorthWindProject.com (2006-01-08). "Nigerian Railway Corporation". Bureau of Public Enterprises - BPE. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  5. Yusuf, Shehu. (2015). "The Development of Baro-Kano Railway As An Aspect of Technology Transfer in Colonial Northern Nigeria". Kano Journal of History. 1 (4): 1–15.
  6. "Baro-Kano Railway, Northern Nigeria (Grant-In-Aid) - Hansard". hansard.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  7. "Ilorin Nigeria". Metasub.org. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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