Tunisia

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Tunisian national railways SNCFT (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens) 040 GT diesel number 562. These were built by General Motors Electro-Motive division in the USA and they run passenger trains on the Tunisian normal gauge network. This one was built in 1999. SNCFT received 21 of these.
Picture from Sousse 12.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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A similar EMD 040 GT18 locomotive no. 564, hauls DC (Direct Climatisé) 5-13/55 train from Tunis to Tozeur. Picture taken between Gafsa and Métlaoui, Tunisia.
Picture 20.2.2020 by David Gubler. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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A similar EMD 040 GT18 locomotive now seen from another direction.
Picture from the Monastir to Tunis line 17.2.2017 by Habib Mhenni. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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It looks like old rubbish but it's not old at all. These diesel multiple units were built by CRRC Nanjing Puzhen in China beginning in 2012 and SNCFT received 15 of them. It's a 160 km/h fast (in theory) and 22,91 metres long normal gauge DMU which has 117 seats.
Picture from Sousse 12.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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This is a Tunisian state railways SNCFT locomotive of the type 060 DP, a six axle machine from the year 1994. It has a power rating of 2400 kW and a top speed of 125 km/h. It's a dieselelectric machine built by General Electrics in USA.
Picture from Tunis 10.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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This is the same train as above with its 060 DP locomotive no.137 but now the train has arrived from Tunis to Sousse.
Picture from Sousse 10.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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This is a diesel multiple unit of the type AMD 800 built by the company CFD at their CFD Bagnères subsidiary. CFD is a company that was founded already in 1881 in France and its original business was to build railway lines and their bridges. Later they started to make locomotives and railway wagons and many other industrial products. These AMG 800 railbuses are powered by two Deutz diesel engines and they have a power rating of 2 x 440 kW. Their top speed is 100 km/h.
Picture from Tunis 10.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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This is an electric multiple unit EMU built by Hyundai Rotem in Korea. The first one of these trains came out of the factory in in Changwon, Korea in 2019. These trains are intended for short suburban routes called RFR or Réseau Ferroviaire Rapide. These are four wagons long multiple units which run with 25 kV AC. Line A of the RFR system runs on metre gauge tracks. Here we see a train of the line D and they run on standard 1435 mm gauge.
Picture from Tunis 10.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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Also this one is an electric multiple unit of the RFR system and also this one has been built by Hyundai Rotem. This is a four coaches long EMU 67 used on the RFR line E. These were ordered from Huyndai in 2016 and the first ones were delivered in 2018. 28 trains were ordered for the then new RFR line E.
Picture from Tunis 10.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

Algerian train in Tunis

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This is an Algerian train in Tunisia waiting for its departure time from Tunis towards Annaba. The two locomotives are of the type 060DJ which is a shunter machine by design. These locomotives were built in 1977. They have a power rating of only 1400 kW and a top speed of 100 km/h. The machines were built by General Electric in the USA.
Picture from Tunis 13.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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These inox coaches of Algerian national railways SNTF were built in France. This one is a first class coach.
Picture from Tunis 13.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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Inside view of the of Algerian national railways SNTF first class coach.
Picture from Tunis 13.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

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This one coach of Algerian national railways SNTF is a generator wagon. A separate generator wagon is needed as the locomotives used were intended as shunters and therefore are unable to provide the train with electricity.
Picture from Tunis 13.3.2026 by Markku Salo.

Trams / light rail

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Métro léger de Tunis, a light rail system in Tunis is running with around 130 Düwag high floor trams plus 55 newer Alstom Citadis trams. It is a 750V 1435 mm system with a length of 30 km. These Düwag trams are from 1985 to 1998 and they are similar with trams of for example the city of Hannover in Germany.
Picture from Tunis 12.3.2026 by Markku Salo.
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