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Okahandja railway station
Okahandja railway station is a railway station serving the town of Okahandja in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway.
Okahandja railway station | |
|---|---|
| Railway station | |
Okahandja railway station in 1902 | |
| General information | |
| Coordinates | 21°58′47″S 16°54′51″E / 21.9796°S 16.9143°ECoordinates: 21°58′47″S 16°54′51″E / 21.9796°S 16.9143°E |
| Owned by | TransNamib Railway |
| History | |
| Opened | 1902 |
Okahandja is situated on the Windhoek—Swakopmund line, built in 1902 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa. In 1914 this line was extended to Walvis Bay.[1]
Okahandja is connected to a number of towns in the north of Namibia via the railway junction in Kranzberg, which lies on the Windhoek-Swakopmund-Walvis Bay route, and to the south and east of Namibia via Windhoek.[1]
Gallery
Okahandja railway station in 2018
Okahandja railway station in 2018
See also
References
- ^ a b Dierks, Klaus. "The Development of the Namibian Railway Network. The Rail History Until the 1990s". www.klausdierks.com. Retrieved 6 November 2012.