Costa Rica is pushing ahead with projects to revive and extend its freight railways. However, plans to build a new 84km electrified passenger railway in the country’s central plateau are at a crossroads, as Ron Buchanan explains.
Will Costa Rica’s grand electric railway plans get over the line?
Costa Rica is pushing ahead with projects to revive and extend its freight railways. However, plans to build a new 84km electrified passenger railway in the country’s central plateau are at a crossroads, as Ron Buchanan explains.
Incofer plans to redevelop the 353km San Jose suburban network which was largely closed in the 1990s.
Categories: Central/South America, Freight, Passenger
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