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Zambia Railways (ZR) is the national railway company of Zambia and one of the two major railway organisations in Zambia. The other system is the binational TAZARA Railway (TAZARA) that interconnects with the ZR at Kapiri Mposhi and provides a link to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam .
Rail transport in Zambia is primarily provided by two systems: . TAZARA Railway; Zambia Railways Limited (sub-systems: Cape to Cairo Railway and Sena railway); Zambia Railways operates a number of rail lines, including the Mulobezi Railway; as of early 2012, it was still in operation, but in poor repair.
Map showing the course of the TAZARA in relation to Tanzania's geography, national parks and game reserves. Running some 1,860 km (1,160 mi) from Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, on the coast of the Indian Ocean to Kapiri Mposhi, near the Copperbelt of central Zambia, the Tazara is sometimes regarded as the greatest engineering effort of its kind since World War II.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway aimed at improving the rail-sea transportation in resource-rich East Africa, Chinese ...
Railway Systems of Zambia Limited (RSZ) was a private company incorporated and registered in Zambia which operates Zambia Railways. It is a subsidiary of NLPI Ltd, an investment holding company, which main investment is focus on infrastructure-related projects within the continent of Africa. The shareholders of NLPI are Nedbank Ltd, Old Mutual ...
The contractual foundations were closed in 1967, and one year later, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway was established, as a condominial railway [8] owned by Tanzania and Zambia. The TAZARA was built in the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) or Cape gauge, which was common in southern Africa, but new to Tanzania. The line was handed over to the company as it was ...
Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) – 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge, 846 km Kitwe-Ndola-New Kapiri Mposhi-Kabwe-Lusaka-Livingstone-Zimbabwe with several freight branches mostly in the Copperbelt totalling 427 km including to DR Congo. Passenger services between Kitwe and Livingstone only.
New Kapiri Mposhi railway station, TAZARA Railway, 2009. ... Rail transport in Zambia; Zambia railways; Railway stations in Angola; References External links ...