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The main line runs to Lake Victoria where a connection operates via Lake Victoria train ferries with the Uganda Railway and Kenya Railways. From the Tanga line a line to Kenya is disused. Railways in Tanzania. There is a break-of-gauge at Dar es Salaam to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) line to Zambia.
In January 2025, the Government of Tanzania through the Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) and the Government of Burundi through BRC [clarification needed] signed a construction contract with China Railway Engineering Group to build the 282km of SGR between these two countries. The contract cost is US$ 2.1 billion.
The Central Line was the second railway project coming into existence in the colony of then German East Africa after the Usambara Railway.For the Tanganjikabahn-project a company was founded, the Ostafrikanische Eisenbahngesellschaft (OAEG) (East African Railway Company) which started railway construction in 1905 with 21 million marks (ℳ) provided by Adolph von Hansemann's Disconto ...
In June, China Railway Materials was awarded a $7.6 billion contract, primarily funded by commercial financing, to build new standard gauge lines connecting Dar es Salaam with Burundi and Rwanda. A separate $1.4 billion contract was awarded to China Railway Engineering Corporation to build a line between mines near Ludewa and the port of Mtwara ...
Railways in Tanzania. Red 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge. Orange 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge. Railway stations in Tanzania include: The Dar es Salaam railway station, Central line, in the year 1973. Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway
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 ...
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority took delivery in 2015 of four diesel-electric locomotives and 18 coaches from China. TAZARA’s Dar es Salaam workshop has also begun a programme to refurbish 24 out-of-use coaches. [83] In FY2014/15, freight traffic fell to 88,000 metric tons in Fiscal Year (FY) but rebounded to 130,000 tons in FY2015/16. [84]
The Tanzania Railway Corporation is managing procurement for the governments of both countries, though Burundi's ARTF will be involved in supervision of the construction. Bidding closed on November 15, 2023. [6] In March 2024, the governments of Tanzania and Burundi commenced formal talks on the technical aspects of construction. [7]