Shire Highlands Railway Company
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shire-highlands-railway-company-296-1188220
title:
Shire Highlands Railway Company
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The Shire Highlands Railway Company Ltd was a private railway company in colonial Nyasaland, incorporated in 1895 with the intention of constructing a railway from Blantyre to the effective head of navigation of the Shire River. After problems with routing and finance, a South African 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge railway was constructed between 1903 and 1907, and extended in 1908 to a Nsanje, a distance of 113 miles (182 km) as water levels in the Shire River fell. As navigational problems in the
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2024-03-19T15:05:36Z
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