The Ministry of Railway Development of Ghana was created with the core responsible to ensure and increase infrastructural growth and service delivery in Ghana's transport sector to help ease pressure on the other means of transport.

The ministry is also tasked with the responsibility of ensuring quality, effective and a more secure means of traveling and transporting goods and services within Ghana and the neighboring countries.

[1][2] The formation of the Ministry is to ensure the rapid growth of a modern and quality rail network in Ghana and the neighboring countries.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana in February, 2017.

These rail networks were built during the colonial period that existed at independence in 1957.