Classic route
TAZARA
Dar es Salaam → Kapiri Mposhi · Tanzania · Zambia
- Distance
- 1,860 km
- Fastest time
- 46 h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- TAZARA
- Train
- Mukuba Express sleeper
- Countries
- Tanzania, Zambia
- In service since
- 1976
Mao-era China’s grandest aid project: the ‘Freedom Railway’ gave landlocked Zambia a copper route that bypassed white-ruled Rhodesia.
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