Classic route
TAZARA
Dar es Salaam → Kapiri Mposhi · Tanzania · Zambia
TAZARA in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,860 km
- Fastest time
- 46 h
- Average speed
- 40 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- TAZARA
- Train
- Mukuba Express sleeper
- Countries
- Tanzania, Zambia
- In service since
- 1976
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Mao-era China’s grandest aid project: the ‘Freedom Railway’ gave landlocked Zambia a copper route that bypassed white-ruled Rhodesia.
How this line was checked
- The 1844 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 14060545 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 66 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 13 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: TAZARA — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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