Usakos railway station

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Usakos railway station
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Locomotive no. 40 plinthed at Usakos railway station
General information
Coordinates 22°00′01″S15°35′17″E / 22.0002°S 15.5881°E / -22.0002; 15.5881
SystemRailway station
Owned by TransNamib
History
Openedearly 1900s
Location
Usakos railway station

Usakos railway station is a railway station in Namibia serving the town of Usakos. It is part of the TransNamib railway network. The station building is dilapidated but passenger trains still stop at Usakos. [1]

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The station was established in the early 1900s as a watering point, stopover, and workshop for the line from Swakopmund to Tsumeb, [1] an industrial narrow-gauge line operated by the Otavi Minen- und Eisenbahngesellschaft ( Otavi Mining and Railway Company, OMEG), with a length of 567 kilometres (352 mi). [2]

When the Windhoek—Swakopmund line was built in 1902 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa, it also connected Usakos. In 1914 this line was extended to Walvis Bay. [3]

Usakos is connected to a number of towns in the north of Namibia via the railway junction in nearby Kranzberg, and to the south and east of Namibia via Windhoek. [3]

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 von Schmettau, Konny (28 February 2013). "Usakos-Kurze Blüte, schneller Fall" [Usakos-Short Rise, Fast Fall]. Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). "Tourismus Namibia" monthly supplement. p. 9.
  2. ↑ Shaw (1958), pp.37-38.
  3. 1 2 Dierks, Klaus. "The Development of the Namibian Railway Network. The Rail History Until the 1990s". klausdierks.com. Retrieved 15 November 2012.

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