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Caricature by Celso Herminio showing the Scottish mining engineer Robert Williams, a contract in his pocket, giving Portugal a railway line in Lobito
Angola railway network
1067mm gauge tracks, 610mm gauge tracks

The history of rail transport in Angola began during the nineteenth century, when Angola was a colony of Portugal. It has involved the construction, operation and destruction of four separate, unconnected, coast-to-inland systems, in two different gauges. Operations on three of those systems have been largely restored; the other system has been closed.

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