Many, who left the country [Ghana] to study overseas, must have travelled by train from Sekondi/Takoradi, or any spot on the complex line of railway connections crisscrossing the nation at the time of independence, except what was then called the "Northern Territories", and reaching the Capital City of Accra.
They then flew from the Accra International Airport - It was yet too young to be called "Kotoka International Airport." Since everything by way of distance was measured then in miles, and not in kilometres, you would say the railway connections in our young country summed up to about 560 miles. The range was narrow, and the trains, as a result, did not cruise any faster than 60 miles an hour, the very maximum. That we had read in Geography books, and comparing with trains in Germany, Canada, or Britain, which cruised as fast as up to 120 miles/hour, ours were really "slow ducks."
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