Tanganyika Railway

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Tanganyika Railway
Geographical data
continent Africa
Country : Tanzania
Route data
Passenger train in Dar es Salaam Central Station
Passenger train in Dar es Salaam Central Station
Route length: 1252 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Maximum slope : 25 
Minimum radius : 100 m
End station - start of the route
0.0 Dar es Salaam TRC
   
to Dar es Salaam port
Station, station
2.3 Ilala
   
from Dar es Salaam port
   
to the commercial area
Station without passenger traffic
7.0 Sachsenwald
Station, station
20.8 Pugu
Station without passenger traffic
26.1 Pugu Brick Siding (brick factory)
Station without passenger traffic
31.9 Kisarawe stop
Station, station
42.3 Mpiji
Station, station
52.9 Soga
Station, station
64.5 Ngeta
Station without passenger traffic
72.8 Kigongo Sisal Siding (connection sisal - plantation )
Station, station
79.7 Ruvu
Station without passenger traffic
82.9 Ruvu Junction
   
after Tanga and Moshi
Station without passenger traffic
84.4 Kilometers 84.4
Station, station
88.9 Kwala
Station without passenger traffic
92.0 Bgalla
Station, station
105.6 Msua
Station, station
117.6 Magindu
Station, station
132.8 Kidugalo
Station without passenger traffic
140.7 Mgode Siding Connection to Sisal Plantation
Station without passenger traffic
143.3 Liverpool Tanganyika Siding
Station, station
144.9 Smaller ones
Station without passenger traffic
147.1 Kiwege sisal siding
Station, station
158.6 Kinonko
Station, station
173.7 Mikese
Station, station
190.9 Kingolwira
Station without passenger traffic
197.1 Tungi sisal siding
Station, station
202.3 Morogoro
Station without passenger traffic
209.3 Masimbu sisal siding
Station, station
223.5 Masimbu
Station, station
247.2 Mkata
Station, station
270.4 Kimamba
Station without passenger traffic
283.2 Kondoa
Station, station
0.0
289.5
Kilosa
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11.6 Kivungu stop
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30.5 Mbamba
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71.2 Mikumi
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98.6 Kidodi stop
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109.5 Kidatu ( RITES )
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24.1 Kidatu ( TAZARA ), Cape Track
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Station, station
304.5 Munisagara
Station, station
316.8 Mzaganza
Station without passenger traffic
322.2 Kidai stop
Station without passenger traffic
324.7 Mwasa stop
Station, station
331.6 Kidete
Station, station
355.6 Godegode
Station, station
366.0 Gulwe
Station, station
381.5 Msagali
   
to Hogoro
Station, station
401.8 Igandu
Station, station
416.0 Munase
Station, station
426.3 Kikombo
Station, station
438.9 Humwa
Station, station
455.5 Dodoma
Station without passenger traffic
460.0 Dodoma Prison Siding Port Prison
Station, station
468.8 Zuzu
Station, station
490.8 Kigwe
Station, station
515.0 Bahi
Station, station
530.1 Kintinku
Station, station
545.6 Makutupara
Station without passenger traffic
558.9 Stop 558.9
Station, station
568.9 Saranda
Station without passenger traffic
581.0 Stop 581
Station, station
585.6 Manyoni
   
to Singida , formerly to Kinyangiri
Station, station
601.2 Aghondi
Station, station
625.7 Itigi
Station, station
643.1 Kitaraka
Station, station
665.9 Kazikazi
Station, station
678.8 Karangazi
Station, station
706.0 Tura
Station, station
720.4 Ipulanilo stop
Station, station
735.1 Malongwe
Station, station
Mpumbuli stop
Station, station
786.9 Nyahua
Station, station
799.8 Goweko
Station, station
815.9 Igalula
Station, station
834.5 Itulu
Station, station
840.5 Tabora
   
after Mwanza
Station without passenger traffic
853.9 Igange
Station, station
866.3 Lulanguru
Station, station
879.4 Mabama
Station, station
901.4 Usoke
Station, station
931.2 Urambo
Station without passenger traffic
958.1 Km 958
Station, station
963.7 Kaliua
   
to Mpanda
Station, station
990.4 Kombe
Station, station
1023.8 Usinge
Station, station
1054.4 Nguruka
Station, station
1077.0 Malagarasi
Station, station
1113.8 Ilunde
Station without passenger traffic
1128.8 Kilometer 1128/8
Station, station
1132.7 Uvinza
Station, station
1164.5 Lugufu
Station without passenger traffic
1167.4 Lugufu Lime Siding Connection Limestone Quarry
Station, station
1185.4 Kazuramimba
Station without passenger traffic
Station, station
1203.4 Kandaga
Station, station
1214.6 Kalenge
Station, station
1229.2 Luiche
Station, station
1245.4 Kigoma
End station - end of the line
Kigoma Pier

The Tanganjikabahn (German name initially Mittellandbahn or Zentralbahn , then Tanganjikabahn ), English Central Line , is today the most important railway line in the East African state of Tanzania alongside the TAZARA . Tanganyika is the name for mainland Tanzania. The city of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika and the Tanzanian metropolis Dar es Salaam are the end points of the route.

history

Steam locomotive in Kidete station
Dar es Salaam station, street side (1973)
Kigoma station, track side
Location of the Tanganyika Railway under the colonial railways of South Equatorial Africa, 1916

The Tanganyika Railway was the second railway project of the German East Africa colony after the Usambara Railway . For this purpose, the East African Railway Company (OAEG) was founded, based in Berlin . The railway construction was financed from 1904 by the German Reich with 21 million marks and started in 1905 in the port and at that time the capital Dar es Salaam.

Right from the start, Reich Commissioner Secret Building Councilor Franz Allmaras (1875–1953) had to struggle with great difficulties due to the tropical climate, periodic rainy seasons and a lack of building materials. On the other hand, they were able to fall back on the experience gained during the construction of the Usambara Railway. Just like there, the meter gauge was chosen. The Tanganyika Railway is the largest technical legacy of the German colonial era in Tanzania.

The route followed old caravan routes to Tabora , which meant great logistical advantages for the German settlers in setting up plantations and for the small town an expansion into a large, agricultural center. In 1907 the train reached the town of Morogoro , 200 kilometers from the coast, and in 1909 Kilosa . Management staff, technical staff and the civil servants were recruited in Germany. Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika was reached on February 1, 1914, at kilometer 1252. At the beginning of 1914, various route modifications, begun in 1912, were completed on the main Dar es Salaam – Morogoro line, which shortened the line by eight kilometers and reduced travel time by one hour with a total of 33 newly laid track kilometers. On March 15, 1914, the entire Dar es Salaam – Kigoma line was opened to restricted public transport, two weeks earlier than stipulated in the construction contract. The opening ceremonies were planned for the period around 23 August 1914 as part of the II General German-East African State Exhibition in Dar es Salaam in 1914. (See also: First World War in East Africa ).

The scheduled travel time over the entire route was just under 58 hours. In 1916, a journey time of one and a half to two days was planned for the continuous train .

Expansion plans envisaged reaching Iringa and Lake Malawi as well as advancing to the northwest with the " Rwanda Railway ". However, due to the war, this did not happen.

The British Mandate Administration supplemented the Zentralbahn with the branch lines Tabora - Mwanza (379 km) to the south bank of Lake Victoria, Kilosa - Mikumi and Manjoni - Kinjangiri (built in 1931, operations ceased after 1948).

After Tanzania gained independence, the Tanganyika Railway and the Usambara Railway were connected with a route from Ruvu to Mruazi .

course

eastern route (1914)
western route (1914)

The Tanganyika Railway connects the Tanzanian metropolis of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean via today's capital Dodoma in the center of the country with Tanzania's most important inland port on Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma. It crosses all of central Tanzania for around 1,250 kilometers and overcomes the height of the eastern edge of the East African Rift Valley . A journey from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma takes around 40 hours according to the timetable today. This is due, among other things, to the outdated infrastructure, which largely stems from the German colonial era.

business

The company was in poor condition at the beginning of 2011. Instead of three times a week, as originally planned, the Tanzania Railways only offered a passenger train from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma and Mwanza once a week. Most of the freight traffic has been shifted to the road. The background to this is the poor condition of the infrastructure and vehicles.

See also

literature

  • Franz Baltzer : The colonial railways with a special focus on Africa. Berlin 1916. Reprint, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-8262-0233-9 , p. 96. - archive.org .
  • Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7 = North, East and Central Africa . 2009, ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5 , tables 50 u. 51.
  • Helmut Schroeter: The railways of the former German protected areas in Africa and their vehicles (= The vehicles of the German railways , Volume 7, ZDB -ID 593887-9 ). Frankfurt 1961.
  • Roel Ramaer: The railways in the once German protected areas. East Africa, South West Africa, Cameroon, Togo and the Shantung Railway then and now . Röhr-Verlag, Krefeld 1993, ISBN 3-88490-184-2 .
  • Ernst Kliemke: The Tabora Railway. With eight illustrations based on original recordings and a map drawing. In: Reclam's Universe 24.1. (1908), pp. 466-472.

Web links

Individual references / comments

  1. Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume II, p. 583
  2. occupation of Zugbeamtenstellen on the railway Dar es Salaam-Morogoro . In: Eisenbahn-Directions Bezirk Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of February 16, 1907, No. 8. Announcement No. 80, p. 80, regarding train drivers ; Eisenbahn-Direktion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of February 15, 1908, No. 7. Announcement No. 69, p. 49, regarding locomotive drivers ; Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of May 23, 1908, No. 31, Nachrichten, p. 341, regarding material administrators; Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of April 2, 1910, No. 13. Announcement No. 229, p. 115, regarding operational controllers ( station masters ).
  3. Kigoma reached from the Tanganika Railway . In: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung , February 4, 1914, No. 11/1914 (16th year), ZDB -ID 2382045-7 , p. 1, top left. - Online (PDF; 2.1 MB) (PDF)
  4. a b Baltzer: Die Kolonialbahnen , p. 54.
  5. From our colony. From the reconstruction of the main line Dar es Salaam – Morogoro . In: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung , February 11, 1914, No. 13/1914 (16th year), ZDB-ID 2382045-7, p. 2 (unpaginated), bottom center. - Online (PDF; 2.3 MB) (PDF)
  6. Baltzer: Die Kolonialbahnen , p. 53 f.
  7. ^ Festive program for the II. General German-East African State Exhibition 1914 on Dar es Salaam . In: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung , August 1, 1914, No. 62/1914 (16th year), ZDB-ID 2382045-7, p. 11 (unpaginated). - Online (PDF; 3.8 MB) (PDF)
  8. Link to the timetable ( Memento of October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  9. James Mwakisyala: Tz railways in deplorable state. (No longer available online.) In: East African Business Week. February 27, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 3, 2011 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.busiweek.com  
  10. 1857-1927; Son of Heinrich Richard Baltzer (1818–1887).