Otavi – Grootfontein railway line

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Otavi-Grootfontein
Line of the Otavi – Grootfontein railway line
Route length: 91.3 km
Gauge : 600 mm, 1067 mm
Maximum slope : 15  ‰
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Kranzberg
Station without passenger traffic
 0.0 Otavi
   
 after Tsumeb
   
 7.0 Otavifontein
   
 41.0 Asis
Station without passenger traffic
 54.0 Guchab
   
 Vertex Guchab 1636 m
Service / freight station - end of line
 91.3 Grootfontein

The Otavi – Grootfontein railway connects the two towns of Otavi and Grootfontein in what was then the protected area of German South West Africa , now Namibia .

The Otavi station is located at km 497 of the Otavi Railway . The 91.3 km long branch line to Grootfontein was built by the South West Africa Co. with an old concession from the administration of the German protected area in 1907 and 1908.

The apex of this branch line lies at an altitude of 1636 m near Guchab and continues north-east to Grootfontein. The construction of the line cost 25,740 marks per running kilometer.

Operations on the Otavibahn and the branch line were also interrupted by the hostilities in World War I. Under South African administration, rail operations to Tsumeb and Grootfontein could be fully resumed on August 25, 1915.

In the following years the route was on in South Africa usual Cape gauge rebuilt.

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