Otavi – Tsumeb railway line

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Otavi-Tsumeb
Line of the Otavi – Tsumeb railway line
Route length: 80 km
Gauge : 1067 mm ( cape track )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Railway line Kranzberg – Otavi from Kranzberg
Station, station
 0 Otavi
   
 to Grootfontein
Station without passenger traffic
 Ohorongo Terminal Cement Factory
Stop, stop
 26th Korab
Stop, stop
 59 Bobos
Station, station
 80 Tsumeb
   
 to Oshikango
   
 Tsumeb copper mine

The railway line Otavi-Tsumeb in Namibia is part of the historic Otavibahn and now connects the villages nordnamibischen Otavi and Tsumeb .

From 1958, the Otavibahn was north of Usakos gradually from 600 mm to 1067 mm umgespurt , where the route was laid out primarily to ensure that trade during the construction work on the existing will not be interrupted had. The new line was officially inaugurated on January 29, 1961, the tracks of the old line had been demolished by February 1962. The route has been operated by TransNamib since Namibia's independence .

On the section between Otavi and Tsumeb, a 3.2-kilometer private siding branches off to the Ohorongo cement factory , which was completed in 2011. The track is used to transport coal to the plant and cement from the plant. The move is carried out using a road-rail vehicle from the company.

The renovation of the railway line by D&M Rail Construction was completed in March 2019 after almost two years. The route now allows a maximum speed of 100 km / h.

See also

literature

  • Brenda Bravenboer and Walter Rusch: The First 100 Years of State Railways in Namibia . Windhoek 1997, ISBN 0-86976-401-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Connection via track, Allgemeine Zeitung, May 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ohorongo cement now available, New Era, March 4, 2011. ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ www.containers.co.za (accessed May 5, 2012). ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.containers.co.za
  4. ↑ http://www. Republikein.com.na/politiek-en-nasionale/transnamib-constructs-private-siding-for-ohorongo-cement.101908.php TransNamib constructs private siding for Ohorongo Cement, Die Republikein, February 10th 2010.
  5. ^ Tsumeb-Otavi railway line upgraded to SADC standard. Namibia Press Agency , March 20, 2019.