Nigerian Railway Corporation is the state-owned enterprise with exclusive rights to operate railways in Nigeria.
There services includes:
1. FREIGHT SERVICES
Nigerian Railway Cooperation freight service is one of the best ways of moving your bulky goods from one place to another which many Nigerians are not making good use of it. This service is very affordable and attractive compare to other transport mediums.
Products that are best for this service are cement, rice, salt, sugar, fertilizer, wheat, billet, cars, coil, petroleum products and other general goods that cannot are easily perish.
It is also good for conveying cattle, rams, grains, kaolin, clinker which are south-bound traffic.
2. PASSENGER SERVICES
Nigerian Railway Cooperation passenger services is the major service NRC undertakes. Her major lines are from Port-Harcourt to Kano every Tuesday (7.00am) and Lagos to Kano every Friday.
NRC has express service from Lagos to Jos and Maiduguri, Port-Harcourt to Jos and Maiduguri.
In practice, they stop at most of the train stations along the way, making the long distance journey time wasting.
These services offer full air conditioning to the 1st class “seater” or “sleeper” luxury saloons, with restaurant cars equipped with conveniences.
There are also standard class-coaches with adequate head room/ luggage racks and parcels’ vans on courier service.