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  2. Central Line (Tanzania) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Railway stations in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Rail transport in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. History of rail transport in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    In 1963, a coastal railway was constructed to link the Central and the Usambara Railway, and in 1965 a branch line was opened southwards, from Kilosa, on the Central Line, to Kidatu. In 1963, the narrow gauge network in southern Tanganyika was shut down. From 1964, discussions took place about a proposed railway line between Tanzania and Zambia.

  6. China to 'revitalise' ageing railway linking Zambia, Tanzania

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    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 ...

  7. Tanzania Railways Corporation - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a railway system, under construction and partially in operation, serving Tanzania and linking it to the neighbouring countries of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, and through these to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of the East African Railway Master Plan.

  9. Usambara Railway - Wikipedia

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    Thereafter the line was run by the Ostafrikanische Eisenbahngesellschaft (East African Railway Cooperation), a company which had been created to build and operate the Tanganyika Central Line (Zentralbahn) from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma. Between Pongwe and Ngommi on the Usambara Railway there was a double hairpin turn.