Caboose

We took a shared taxi from Elmina up to the junction and then had to wait a while for a tro-tro while taxi drivers asked for ludicrous amounts for a charter to Takoradi.

On arrival at the railway station we discovered that the train to Kumasi now only runs on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. We debated some alternative plans and decided to hang around for Friday’s train. As in Nigeria the station seems to have lots of staff around doing nothing much, the sidings are full of abandoned rolling stock and the cafeteria obviously hasn’t been open recently. I was amused to see that they had copied the name “Traveller’s Fare” from the old British Rail catering.

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