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Sekondi-Takoradi Railway Station is the historic western terminus of the **Western Railway Line** — the 340 km (about 211-mile) track that runs from **Takoradi** through **Kojokrom, Tarkwa, Huni Valley, Dunkwa-on-Offin** and on to **Kumasi**, where it meets the Eastern Line. It is the anchor of Ghana's western rail corridor and one of the oldest railway stations in the country. The line was built by the British colonial administration primarily to move **manganese and gold** from the interior to the deep-water port at Takoradi, which opened in **1928**. The railway reached **Kojokrom in 1903**, was extended to **Tarkwa in 1903–1904**, and pushed on to **Huni Valley (1911)** and finally **Kumasi in 1923** — making the Sekondi–Takoradi terminus the gateway through which Ghana's mineral wealth flowed to the sea. The station sits in the twin-city conurbation of **Sekondi-Takoradi**, capital of the **Western Region**, and historically served both the port traffic and the passenger and commuter services linking the coastal towns with the mining belt. The station and the wider Western Line have seen major rehabilitation in recent years under the Ghana Railway Development Authority and the Ghana Railway Company, with the **Takoradi–Kojokrom** section upgraded and new **diesel multiple units (DMUs)** introduced for commuter services. The government has also pursued the **Takoradi to Kumasi** standard-gauge conversion as part of the broader national rail modernisation programme, alongside the **Tema–Mpakadan** line in the east. Culturally, the station is bound up with the story of Sekondi-Takoradi itself — the "Twin City" that grew from two separate coastal settlements into Ghana's oil-and-port capital after the **Jubilee Field** discovery in 2007. The old station buildings carry that layered history: colonial-era masonry, the rhythm of the marshalling yards, and the memory of the steam locomotives that once hauled cocoa, timber, manganese and gold down to the harbour. If you want, I can go deeper on the **Takoradi–Kumasi rehabilitation timeline**, the **commuter DMU services**, or the **railway museum/heritage angle** — just say which. And if you're planning to feature the station on GhanaMann, the Directory's **Travel** and **History** categories are the natural home for it.

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