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'''Chilanga''' is a town in [[Zambia]]. It is the capital of [[Chilanga District|Chilanga]] distric Chilanga is served by a station on the [[TAZARA]] railway.

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...shi]] is the district west of Serenje. The [[Mulembo Falls]] lie near the town. * [[Railway stations in Zambia]]

...ng north east of [[Livingstone, Zambia|Livingstone]], on the main road and railway line to [[Lusaka]]. It is home to the Batonga people. It was the first admi ...e from at least the ninth century until the twelfth century, lies near the town.

...e from 1927<ref name="Horizon">{{cite journal| url=http://www.nrzam.org.uk/Railway/Rail.html| journal=Horizon Magazine on-line| title=Zambia's Second Industry With a length of {{convert|427|m|ft}} the Kafue Railway Bridge was the longest bridge on the Rhodesian Railways network.<ref name="

...on the [[Great North Road (Zambia)|Great North Road]] and the [[Tazara]] [[railway]], northeast of [[Kapiri Mposhi]]. The [[Changwena Falls]] and [[Fort Elwe * [[Railway stations in Zambia]]

...cond hotel of that name; the previous North Western Hotel built in 1906 by railway contractors Pauling and Co was converted into government offices. ...wn in 1961.<ref name="Ese">Kristin Ese, An Historical Guide to Livingstone Town, p.8,9.22, Livingstone Tourism Association, 1996</ref>

...gstone Road]] and the railway to [[Livingstone, Zambia|Livingstone]]. The town lies on the south east edge of the [[Kafue Flats]] wetland. The name Mazabu The town has grown around sugar cane plantations, and currently [[Zambia Sugar]] ([[

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[[Image:Victoria5.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Railway bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe at [[Victoria Falls]]]] ...way Systems of Zambia]] (RSZ). The other system is the binational [[TAZARA Railway]] (TAZARA) that interconnects with the ZR at [[Kapiri Mposhi]] and provides

...Company built Zambezi Sawmills Railway Class 7 locomotive No 955, at the [[Railway Museum (Zambia)]], 11 September 1997.]] The '''Mulobezi Railway''' (once known as the '''Zambezi Sawmills Railway''') was constructed to carry timber from [[Mulobezi]] to [[Livingstone, Zam

...ing in excess of 20,000 people. The city of [[Kitwe]] grew up as a service town for the Nkana mines but soon swallowed them up and the city is known as [[K

|settlement_type = Town '''Petauke''' is a town and seat of [[Petauke District]] located in the [[Eastern Province, Zambia|

...odes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo.]] ...ngo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-83).jpg|thumb|Boarding Cape to Cairo Railway in the [[Belgian Congo]], c. 1900-1915.]]

'''Mwinilunga''' is a town in the [[North-Western Province, Zambia|North-Western Province]] of [[Zambi The town had a population estimated at 14,500 in 2006. The [[Chilunda]]-speaking [[K

...e]] of [[Zambia]], lying on the [[Lusaka-Livingstone road|main road ]] and railway from [[Lusaka]] to [[Livingstone, Zambia|Livingstone]]. It is home to a sm * [[Railway stations in Zambia]]

*[[Zambezi, Zambia]], a town in the North-Western Province of Zambia *[[Mulobezi Railway]] (once known as the Zambezi Sawmills Railway) was constructed to carry timber from Mulobezi to Livingstone in the Southe

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...e Muchinga Escarpment to the east and vast Miombo plains to the west. The town has an estimated population of 40,000 inhabitants (2008), while the distric ...Chipata]] to Mpika was proposed, with a junction linking with the [[TAZARA Railway]].<ref name="RRA">[http://railwaysafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&t

...and this junction of the 'Great Roads' together with the main north-south railway contributed to the decision to site the capital in Lusaka in 1935).<ref>Cam ...], south to the [[Lower Zambezi National Park]] and the town of [[Luangwa (town)|Luangwa]] at the Luangwa-Zambezi river confluence. In the 1960s the Great

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|established_title2 = <!-- Incorporated (town) --> ...h once supported a commercial timber industry and for which the [[Mulobezi Railway]] was built.

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'''Mpulungu''' is a town in the [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]] of [[Zambia]], at th * [[Railway stations in Zambia]]

|established_title2 = <!-- Incorporated (town) --> ...ust six months after Livingstone, making it the second oldest colonial-era town of Zambia. It was started as a [[Boma (enclosure)|boma]] and trading post,

# [[Ing-ombe Ilede]], Lusitu, is an archaeological site near the town of [[Siavonga]], at 16°11' S 28°19' E. ...Middle Pleistocene Hope Fountain Culture in Southern Africa, north side of town.

|established_title2 = <!-- Incorporated (town) --> ...eclined due to the very slow rates of re-growth and the reduced demand for railway sleepers. There is no mining within the province, although there have been

# [[Ing-ombe Ilede]], Lusitu, is an archaeological site near the town of [[Siavonga]], at 16°11' S 28°19' E. ...Middle Pleistocene Hope Fountain Culture in Southern Africa, north side of town.

|established_title2 = <!-- Incorporated (town) --> ...extended into DR Congo, and from there eventually linked to the [[Benguela Railway]] to the Atlantic port of [[Lobito]], which used to take some of Zambia's c

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...e territory, except by [[ox-wagon]]. Even when the [[Zambia Railways|first railway]] reached the [[Copperbelt]] in 1910, there was no mechanised road transpor ...rvices by the [[MV Liemba]] connecting to the [[Kigoma]]-[[Dar es Salaam]] railway.

*[[Zambezi (Town)|Zambezi]] ***[[Benguela railway]]

...ute for Conservation and Environment].</ref> whereas the national park and town on the Zimbabwean shore are both named ''Victoria Falls''.<ref name=wicezw ...aintings of the falls. Until the area was opened up by the building of the railway in 1905, though, the falls were seldom visited by other Europeans. Nonether

|established_title2 = <!-- Incorporated (town) --> ...ded by European (mainly British) settlers in 1905 with the building of the railway.

*[[Zambezi (Town)|Zambezi]] ***[[Benguela railway]]

* The port town of [[Kigoma]] is the [[railhead]] for the railway from [[Dar es Salaam]] in [[Tanzania]]. * The port town of [[Kalemie]] (previously named Albertville) is the [[railhead]] for the [

...d by his estate, and put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. ...towndiamondmuseum.org/about-diamonds/famous-people/ Famous people], ''Cape Town Diamond Museum'']</ref>

...by missionaries from Portugal in about 1720, but by 1887 it was a [[ghost town]]. Its last inhabitants had fled amid a native rising about half a century ...al]], with the ultimate goal of aiding Rhodes's dream of a [[Cape to Cairo railway]] through British territory. Having a firm hold over [[Matabeleland]], [[Ma

Partially motivated by Rhodes's dream of a [[Cape to Cairo Railway]], railway and telegraph lines were laid across previously barren Rhodesia with great {{main|Cecil Rhodes|Cape to Cairo Railway|British South Africa Company}}

In April 1904 the railway reached Victoria Falls and a year later the [[Victoria Falls Bridge|Falls B By 1910 the railway was complete through to the Congo. Mining was in operation at Broken Hill (

...Lungu visited the [[TAZARA Railway]] station and vowed to help revive the railway to its former glory. Lungu also visited the office of the [[Tazama Pipeline |Lungu visited the town of [[Kasane]], and was received by his Botswanan counterpart [[Ian Khama]].

...ts to supply the reported increase in demand for fish in the emerging mine town of Elizabethville (now [[Lubumbashi]]). Later, the Belgians wanted to claim ...government control. Parry also saw the advantage of linking the Rhodesian railway system with that of the Congo. At this point in the colonial period, the r

...unction with the ''Ostafrikanische Eisenbahngesellschaft'' ([[East African Railway Company]]). ...the German naval commander on the lake, [[Gustav Zimmer]], to abandon the town and head south. In order to avoid the ship falling into Allied hands, Gener

.... 100&nbsp;km further north is a river called the [[Quelimane]], after the town at its mouth. This stream, which is silting up, receives the overflow of th * [[Chinyingi|Chinyingi suspension footbridge]] near the town of [[Zambezi, Zambia|Zambezi]], a {{convert|300|m|ft|adj=on}} footbridge bu

...in the British Colony of [[Northern Rhodesia]] (later to become Zambia), a town near the site of the [[Nsalu rock and cave paintings|Nsalu 12,000-year-old ...nd of the mid-seventies Chinese built [[Tazara]] (TAnzania ZAmbia RAilway) railway, whose other end is in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania's capital on the Indian Ocea

...anonymously that Haroon Rashid Aswat (31) has been arrested in the border town of Livingstone, having crossed into Zambia from Zimbabwe. Aswat was sought ...with attempted murder. 12 workers at [[Collum Coal Mine]] in the southern town of [[Sinazongwe]] were injured a day earlier when mainly Chinese managers f

...amed after [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] - the Zambian town near the Falls is named after him. Livingstone later [[Livingstone Memorial ...Salaam]], built with Chinese assistance, reduced Zambian dependence on the railway line south to South Africa and west through an increasingly war-ravaged Ang

...mbia]]’s most successful football club and are based in the [[Copperbelt]] town of [[Mufulira]]. Popularly known as '''Mighty Mufulira Wanderers''', the cl ...Mufulira Mine Team when mine workers demanded their own team to rival the town’s municipal-run team Mufulira Football Club which later became Mufulira B

|established_title2 = <!-- Incorporated (town) --> ...rporation|year=2016|isbn=9781514462287}}</ref> TAZARA, the Tanzania-Zambia railway line, has a major terminal in the city. It provides connectivity to the por

...as "Mosi-o-Tunya" or "thundering smoke" in the Lozi or Kololo dialect. The town of [[Livingstone, Zambia|Livingstone]], near the Falls, is named after him. ...n increasingly troubled [[Portuguese Angola]]. Until the completion of the railway, Zambia's major artery for imports and the critical export of copper was al