Ambolandbahn

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Amboland
Railway (Otjiwarongo – Okahakana)
Route length: 60 (265) km
Gauge : 600 mm ( narrow gauge )

The Amboland Railway in the German South West Africa colony was a planned and partially built railway line from Otjiwarongo to Ovamboland . The railway was completed on 60 kilometers to Outjo and was operated as the Otjiwarongo – Outjo railway.

history

The main purpose of the route was to transport workers from Ovamboland to the other areas of the colony. The total distance between Otjiwarongo and Okahakana would have been 265 kilometers. The planned final stop, Okahakana, was a water point at which various native paths from the individual Ovambo tribes met.

Construction of the railway began on September 18, 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War . Due to the war, construction work was stopped in February 1915.

See also

literature

  • Uwe Albert: Then and now - On the trail of the railways in German South West Africa. Glanz & Gloria Verlag, Windhoek 2016, ISBN 978-99916-909-1-9 .
  • Franz Baltzer : The colonial railways with a special focus on Africa. GJ Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Berlin and Leipzig 1916, pages 94-95.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Dierks : Traffic history of Namibia. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  2. ^ Railways, Amboland Railway. In: German Colonial Lexicon. 1920, Volume I, p. 529 ff.