DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR RAILWAY TRANSPORT IN CAMBODIA
Introduction
Royal Cambodian Railway (R.C.R) has emerged destroyed and wrecked after the 1970-1979 war. The existing potential energy for development was traditional and under developed.
After liberation in 1979 R.C.R made no indictable growth, it subsisted by its own means with some compensation subsidies financed by the Government. Early 1990 saw a project development plan to provide Diesel locomotives from CKD Prague and 15 freight box wagons from India. Also a special rehabilitation assistance project, financed by ADB and World Bank, to carry out side work and rolling stock repair to maintain the traffic operations of the railway during the period 1994 and 1996.
Government policy focused on reconstructing the railway system and it's network at the same pace of the developing social and economic structure of Cambodia, in an attempt to improve the railway to better serve the public in large and to enhance the transport sector.
The purpose of this presentation is to examine the causes, processes, consequences and the difficulties encountered during the period 1979 - 1996 and the project plan for development in the years to come
The last twenty years of Royal Cambod inn Railway
From 1979 to 1984 transport operation was limited on the southern line due only to lack of materials. The train operated without revenue. The main goal was the transportation of emergency food for the population. During the same period the Northem line was under repair to extend it from South to North and traffic reopened through Battambang at the end of 1981.
