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TRC online ticket booking made easy. Read this before TRC Tanzania train tickets online booking. The Tanzania standard gauge railway is a structure of railway, linking the Tanzania to bordering nations of Uganda and Rwanda, and through these two, to Burundi  and  the Democratic Republic of Congo. The railway structure is planned to change the old, slow metre-gauge railway system. Do SGR trains in Tanzania railways online booking and save time and money.

TRC Tanzania booking, Routes, Schedule & Fares FAQs

Visiting TRC Tanzania booking stations or doing TRC online ticket booking confirmed train reservations:

Train routes in Tanzania

There are 2 lines: Tazara, linking Dar es Salaam with New Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia via Mbeya and Tunduma, and the limited Tanzania Railway Central Line linking Dar es Salaam with Kigoma  and Mwanza via Tobora. A middle Line branch also links Tabora with Mpanda, and Tazara runs the Udzungwa shuttle twice weekly between Makambako and Kilombero area. How to do trc Tanzania train tickets online booking:

1) Tanzania Railways online booking

You can make trains in Tanzania Railways online booking, or you can buy them at the station or by phone. Call Dar es Salaam office for cheap sgr Tanzania train tickets reservation on +255 22 26 2191 for westbound journeys or call the station master, reserve by phone and collect and pay for trc ticket booking in Tanzania when you get there. If these do not work, these numbers for the TRC Tanzania booking railways train ticket office have also been reported as working: +255 787099064 or +255 767099064.

2) Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority – Tazara train booking

An email from Tazara customer relations also advises that Tanzania train bookings can be made on any of the following numbers: +255 715469239 or +255 754260988. They will make your Tazara ticket booking and you pay and collect train tickets from Tanzania to Zambia at the station later.

3) TRC ticket booking agents

Alternatively, you can buy train tickets in Tanzania before you get to Tanzania by contacting a best local travel agency or do TRC online ticket booking.

TRC Tanzania booking standard gauge railway (SGR) train travel system sections

The SGR railway system would contain of several big sections.

SGR trains in Tanzania routes

Dar es Salaam – Morogoro section

This SGR trains in Tanzania section measuring three-hundred kilometers, was contracted to a 50/50 consortium compressing Mota-Engil of Portugal and Yapi Merkezi of Turkey. Construction start in April 2017. Partial funding for this section, amounting to $1.2 billion dollars, was borrowed from the Export Credit Bank of Turkey. In May 2019, it was declared that the present phase of the project is sixty percent complete and the primary passenger trains are guessed to begin service in December 2019. There will be 6 stations: Ruvu, Soga, Pugu, Dar es Salaam, Morogoro and Ngerengere. 3 trains will make daily round tours.

SGR Morogoro through Dodoma to Makutopora section

This SGR trains in Tanzania section was also constructed to the linking of Dar es Salaam- Morogoro section. The line stretches from Morogoro to the Dodoma capital and onward to Makutopora in Manyoni area, Singida Area. It measures 426 kilometers. In September 2018, the administration of Tanzania secured a soft credit from standard chartered bank, amounting to $ 1.46 billion dollars. The stations after Morogoro will be Gulwe, Kidete, Kilosa, Mkata, Bahi, Dodoma and Makutopora.

SGR Dodoam-Isaka section

Tabora – Isaka section TRC has signed a $US 900.1m contract to build the Tabora – Isaka section. This SGR trains in Tanzania section, measuring 435 kilometers, spreading from Makutupora in Singida area via Tobora to Isaka, is yet to be prized to a contractor, as of September 2018.

SGR Isaka–Rusumo Section

This SGR train Tanzania stretch is part of the Isaka-kigali standard Gauge Railway and calculates about 371 kilometers. Construction of this section is estimated at $942 million dollars. In April, the East Africa newspapers reported that the World Bank had expressed its willingness to fund this section.

SGR Isaka–Mwanza Section

TRC has signed a $US 1.3b contract to build the Isaka – Mwanza section. This SGR trains in Tanzania section, calculating about 220 kilometers takes the SGR line of the city of Mwanza, on the southern shores of Lake Victoria. This section, has not been offered to a contractor, as of September 2018. SGR train Tanzania TRC online booking confirmed train reservation will be possible soon.

SGR Tanzania train tickets online booking portal

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