La Gare — Attraction in Addis Ababa

Its an old site of the first Ethio-Djibouti railroad. There are old trains in the field. The offices display typical architectural styles of France.

The rail road was built both by the Ethiopian and French government. It has been in operation until some 20 years ago. It stopped service due to problems on the road and the trains got old.

After several years of hiberination, it was reorganized to be the Ethiopian Railway Corporation in 2007. A chinese railway contractor built the railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti and the Addis Ababa Light Railway Transport. The corporation is now operating both the national and Addis Ababa units. Other railroad are also under construction in different parts of...

Note that I have never used it as a real train station, and that I am only raiting it as a touristic attraction.

A few meters from Av. Churchill (Addis Ababa) is "Leghar" or "La Gare", a building with French style that was inaugurated in 1917 and served for about 100 years as the main railway station that connected to the Ethiopian capital with Djibouti.

Many merchants, business people and workers took this train until, by 2017 with the logistical and financial aid from China, a more modern railway system was inaugurated (although very controversial due to the number of problems and errors presented shortly after being open to...

Legehar train station (French: La Gare), was the main railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the terminal station of the metre-gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railway that connected Ethiopia's capital to the Port of Djibouti. Completed in 1917, the station was a central part of the city and the main source of traffic into the city. The style of the station is French, reflecting the nationality of its builders. The station is no longer in operation, as the metre-gauge railway has been largely superseded by the standard-gauge Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway completed in 2017. The standard-gauge station is located in the outskirts of...