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Railway network of Namibia
Luxury passenger train at Simplon[1] (Between Sandverhaar and Goageb) in 2015

The rail service in Namibia is provided by TransNamib. The Namibian rail network consists of 2,687 km of tracks (2017).

Namibia has a history of more than 100 years of railway service. During the colonialisation by the German Empire between 1894 and 1915, a number of railways were built, of which some are still in service today.[2]

  1. ^ See German Page Simplon (Namibia)
  2. ^ Dierks, Klaus. "The Development of the Namibian Railway Network. The Rail History Until the 1990s". www.klausdierks.com. Retrieved 6 November 2012.

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