Windhoek – Gobabis railway line

Windhoek – Gobabis
Gobabis Station (2017)
Route length:	224 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Route
Legend by Keetmanshoop 0 Windhoek 1670 m to Swakopmund 1 Relaxation 4.5 Little Windhoek National road B6 photo 7th Advice 8th Mavis 10 tank 21st hope 1917 m Vertex 1917 m 26th Finkenstein 27 Caps 47 Ondekaremba ( new dam ) 66 Seeis photo 1621 m 66 Seeis photo 82 Okatumba 95 White nossob 117 Omitara photo 149 Unity 165 Grünental photo 1474 m 173 Witvlei photo 1455 m Gerard photo 199 Ninette photo 222 Black nossob photo 1438 m 224 Gobabis 1445 m

The Windhoek – Gobabis railway was the first project to build a railway line after the German colonial era in what is now Namibia .

The route opens up an area east of Windhoek , which had already been developed agriculturally during the German "protectorate" period. It was built under the direction of South African Railways from 1921 to 1929 in Cape Gauge ( gauge 1067 mm) and put into operation in December 1929.

Currently (as of April 2020), the route is no longer regularly operated by the national railway company TransNamib and only in freight traffic. In the early 2000s it was planned to use it as a supply line to and from the airport as far as Windhoek International Airport .

See also

• Rail transport in Namibia

Web links

Commons : Windhoek – Gobabis railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Brenda Bravenboer and Walter Rusch: The First 100 Years of State Railways in Namibia . Windhoek 1997, ISBN 0-86976-401-2
• Helmut Schroeter: The railways of the former German protected areas in Africa and their vehicles = The vehicles of the German railways 7. Frankfurt 1961.
• Railway route system in Namibia, study by Klaus Dierks, 2004