History Zambia Railways

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part of railway near kabwe under construction


the 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge cape gauge zr network built during british colonial rule part of vision of cape-cairo railway economic spur access mines of central africa. railway started part of rhodesian railways, company ran railways of northern rhodesia , southern rhodesia integrated operation, 1 of largest employers , enterprises in both countries. railway arrived in future zambia in 1905 when 150 km livingstone-kalomo line built in advance of completion in september of year of victoria falls bridge southern rhodesia livingstone. first wagons on line hauled oxen, single locomotive conveyed in pieces cableway across gorge bridge being built start operations kalomo in advance of main line connection.


another major bridge required cross kafue river , 427 m long kafue railway bridge, longest on rhodesian railways or zambian railways network completed in 1906.


the line reached broken hill (kabwe) in 1906 , ndola in copperbelt in 1909 (connecting sakania in congo), 20 years before first large-scale copper mines opened there.


zambia railways operates mulobezi railway, branch line livingstone, built private timber line.


in mid-1960s spurred rhodesian udi crisis, newly independent zambia split railways off rhodesia railways, , zambia railways came being.








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