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World's Most Dangerous Railway Lines - The Tazara,Tanzania-Zambia Railway

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In 1970, deep in the heart of Africa, construction began on one of the most daring infrastructure projects in Africa, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, or Tazara for short.

Red clouds of dust still hang over the pits of the copper mines in Zambia's Copperbelt, for whose removal China financed the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. The train route with which the inland got its own transport route to the coast of East Africa was the liberation from the dependence on the neighboring apartheid-ruled countries of East Africa.

Back then, the World Bank and other international investors shied away from the risk and refused a loan. They found the route too difficult, and a railway is not economically viable.
But within six years, the daring project, worth the equivalent of $ 500 million, was completed by Chinese and African workers.

The silver shimmering tracks stretch for 1860 kilometers from the port city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania through a wild and barely developed area to Kapiri Mposhi in northern Zambia.
More than 40 years ago, the railway builders from Tanzania, Zambia and China cut a path through dense forest with machete in hand. They defied the mountains with 22 tunnels and built 320 bridges to cross deep valleys and rivers in this secluded area. The men were completely on their own in the solitude of the wilderness. Not only the railway construction work was dangerous. The daily threat from wild animals also turned into a daily battle of life and death. According to official figures, 160 workers lost their lives in the construction work.
Even today, the route leads through nature parks with wild animals from Africa, which, with luck, can also be seen from the train.
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