page_title: Zambia Railways
section_title: TAZARA Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Zambia Railways / International links / TAZARA Railway
caption_attribution_description: Tazara Rail
context_page_description: Zambia Railways is the national railway of Zambia, one of the two major railway organisations in Zambia, which may also be referred to as Railway Systems of Zambia. The other system is the binational TAZARA Railway that interconnects with the ZR at Kapiri Mposhi and provides a link to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam.
context_section_description: As most of its major export routes ran through then apartheid controlled South Africa, Zambia needed an alternate export route for its copper. In 1976, Chinese construction crews completed the 1,860-kilometer-long Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) which runs from Kapiri Mposhi just north of the Zambian capital Lusaka, to the Tanzanian capital and major east African port of Dar es Salaam. After being operated jointly by the two nationalised railway systems, the Chinese again took over the running of TAZARA in a joint transport agreement from January 2007, which covered both direct air links to Beijing Capital International Airport and copper ore export.
caption: Kapiri Mposhi station
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