2023 / Morocco and Spain - Autumn 2023 / Oujda Guenfouda Taourirt

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Home / 2023 / Morocco and Spain - Autumn 2023 / Oujda Guenfouda Taourirt - 4 October 2023 22

Wednesday 4th October 2023 Today was Day 1 of the two-day Branch Line Society "Sahara Explorer" railtour. Today was supposed to be a run to Jerada power station, a branch line from Guenfouda, but this had been refused on unclear grounds only the previous day, after previously having been approved. So we just covered Oujda - Guenfouda - Naïma - Oujda, so doing all three sides of the triangular layout Beni Oukil / Guenfouda / Naïma. There was plenty of time at Naïma to view the adjacent remains of the platform on the long closed 600 mm gauge railway that ran from Fès to Oujda between 1912 and 1932, when it was replaced by the present standard gauge line. Also time to look around the station and station control room there. With not much else to do I took a ride with a few others on service trains from Oujda to Taourirt and back.
See trip report for the full itinerary, traction details and notes.