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[[Image:Victoria5.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Railway bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe at [[Victoria Falls]]]] | [[Image:Victoria5.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Railway bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe at [[Victoria Falls]]]] | ||
'''Zambia Railways''' (ZR) is the national railway of [[Zambia]], one of the two major railway organizations in Zambia, which may also be referred to as [[Railway Systems of Zambia]] (RSZ). The other system is the binational [[TAZARA Railway]] (TAZARA) that interconnects with the ZR at [[Kapiri Mposhi]] and provides a link to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. | '''Zambia Railways''' (ZR) is the national railway of [[Zambia]], one of the two major railway organizations in Zambia, which may also be referred to as [[Railway Systems of Zambia]] (RSZ). The other system is the binational [[TAZARA Railway]] (TAZARA) that interconnects with the ZR at [[Kapiri Mposhi]] and provides a link to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. | ||
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{{main article|History of rail transport in Zambia}} | {{main article|History of rail transport in Zambia}} | ||
[[File:Rhodesian Railways under construction near Broken Hill Zambia.png|thumb|right|Part of the railway near Kabwe under construction]] | [[File:Rhodesian Railways under construction near Broken Hill Zambia.png|thumb|right|Part of the railway near Kabwe under construction]] | ||
The | The 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge Cape gauge ZR network was built during British colonial rule as part of the vision of the [[Cape-Cairo railway]] but the economic spur was to access the mines of Central Africa. The railway started as part of [[Rhodesian Railways]], the company which ran the railways of Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia as an integrated operation, which was one of the largest employers and enterprises in both countries. The railway arrived in the future Zambia early in 1905 when the 150 km Livingstone-Kalomo line was built in advance of completion in September of that year of the [[Victoria Falls Bridge]] from the then Southern Rhodesia to [[Livingstone]]. The first wagons on the line were hauled by oxen, then a single locomotive was conveyed in pieces by cableway across the gorge where the bridge was being built to start up operations to Kalomo in advance of the main line connection.<ref>[http://www.nrzam.org.uk/Railway/Rail.html ''Horizon'' magazine: "Zambia's Second Industry", February 1965, pp4-11.]</ref> | ||
Another major bridge was required to cross the [[Kafue River]] and the 427 m long [[Kafue Railway Bridge]], the longest on the Rhodesian Railways or Zambian Railways network was completed in 1906. The line reached Broken Hill ([[Kabwe]]) in 1906 and [[Ndola]] in the [[Copperbelt]] in 1909 (connecting to Sakania in the Congo), some 20 years before the first large-scale copper mines opened there. Zambia Railways operates the [[Mulobezi Railway]], a branch line from [[Livingstone]], built as a private timber line. In the mid-1960s spurred by the [[Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia)|Rhodesian UDI]] crisis, the newly independent Zambia split its railways off from Rhodesia Railways, and Zambia Railways came into being. | Another major bridge was required to cross the [[Kafue River]] and the 427 m long [[Kafue Railway Bridge]], the longest on the Rhodesian Railways or Zambian Railways network was completed in 1906. The line reached Broken Hill ([[Kabwe]]) in 1906 and [[Ndola]] in the [[Copperbelt]] in 1909 (connecting to Sakania in the Congo), some 20 years before the first large-scale copper mines opened there. Zambia Railways operates the [[Mulobezi Railway]], a branch line from [[Livingstone]], built as a private timber line. In the mid-1960s spurred by the [[Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia)|Rhodesian UDI]] crisis, the newly independent Zambia split its railways off from Rhodesia Railways, and Zambia Railways came into being. | ||
