Classic route
TAZARA
Dar es Salaam → Kapiri Mposhi · Tanzania · Zambia
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the TAZARA?
The TAZARA runs 1,860 km from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi. It runs through Tanzania and Zambia.
How long does the TAZARA take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 46 h for the 1,860 km. That is an average of 40 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 100 km/h.
Who runs the TAZARA?
TAZARA, with Mukuba Express sleeper.
How old is the TAZARA?
The line has been in service since 1976. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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