Botswana Railways

First line in what is now Botswana opened in 1897. The country is traversed by the railway from Ramatlabama, South Africa, to Bakaranga, Zimbabwe, en route from Mafikeng to Bulawayo and from southern Africa to Zambia, Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi. BR's principal business is movement of bulk transit ...

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