1000 Francs CFA Abidjan-Niger Railway

The Abidjan–Ouagadougou railway, completed in 1954 under French colonial administration, was the economic artery that made landlocked Upper Volta commercially viable. After independence and the country's 1984 renaming to Burkina Faso, the line passed through successive management crises before SITARAIL took over operations in 1995 under a concession shared with Côte d'Ivoire. By 2013, when this piece was struck, freight and passenger traffic had declined sharply from mid-century peaks, making the commemorative choice feel more elegiac than celebratory.