Leghar / La Gare in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

[Marichams]

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

[shantanu-kaizen]

Hello@Marichams,

The building is not large. though looks nice.

Is it a small railway station? Is this not working anymore?

Thanks for the post.

[Marichams]

@shantanu-kaizen It is indeed not as big as one may expect it to be, given the importance. If I understood correctly it is now functioning as a bus station, since the train station was moved to a new location.