Usakos Railway Station

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

German Class Hd Locomotive no. 40 plinthed at Usakos railway station

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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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". www.klausdierks.com. Retrieved 15 November 2012.

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Coordinates: 22°00′01″S 15°35′17″E / 22.0002°S 15.5881°E / -22.0002; 15.5881

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