One train reached 275kph (170mph) on Monday along a stretch of track between the northern cities of Kenitra and Tangier.
Engineers in Morocco are preparing to test Africa’s first high-speed railway this week with trains reaching 320 kilometres (200 miles) per hour, the country’s rail office said Monday.
One train reached 275kph (170 mph) on Monday along a stretch of track between the northern cities of Kenitra and Tangier, the ONCF said.
‘This is already the fastest train on the African continent,’ said French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who was in Morocco to sign a loan deal between the ONCF and the French Development Agency.
A locomotive for Morocco’s first high speed rail link, produced by French train maker Alstom, arrives at the Moroccan port of Tangier on June 30, 2015
He said the railway was ’emblematic of the Franco-Moroccan bilateral relationship’.
The link between Casablanca and Tangier via the capital Rabat will slash journey times between the North African country’s economic hubs by almost two thirds, from five hours and 45 minutes to just over two hours.
