Okahandja railway station explained

Okahandja railway station
Type:Railway station
Opened:1902
Owned:TransNamib Railway

Okahandja railway station is a railway station serving the town of Okahandja in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway.

Okahandja is situated on the WindhoekSwakopmund 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Development of the Namibian Railway Network. The Rail History Until the 1990s. Dierks. Klaus. Klaus Dierks. www.klausdierks.com. 6 November 2012.