Kafue Railway Bridge
The Kafue Railway Bridge was built to carry the Livingstone to Lusaka railway line in what is now Zambia over the Kafue River in 1906. It is a steel girder truss bridge of 13 spans each of 33 metres (108 ft) supported on concrete piers. It was built for , later merged into Rhodesian Railways which operated the line from 1927[1] until succeeded in Zambia by Zambia Railways in 1966.
With a length of 427 metres (1,401 ft) the Kafue Railway Bridge was the longest bridge on the Rhodesian Railways network.[1] It includes nearly 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of embankments raised about 7 metres (23 ft) where the line crosses the river's wider rainy season channel, and a lower embankment about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long where it crosses the river's the shallower floodplain to the south-west of the bridge.[2]
The town of Kafue is at the bridge's northern end and the on the Great North Road is 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) downstream.[2]
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- ^ a b "Zambia's Second Industry". Horizon Magazine On-line. February 1965. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
- ^ a b "Google Earth". Retrieved 23 March 2007. The bridge is visible at decimal latitude/longitude -15.7876, 28.1766.
- Bridges in Zambia
- Bridges completed in 1906
- Railway bridges in Zambia
- 1906 establishments in the British Empire
- African bridge (structure) stubs