page_title: Transport in Tanzania
section_title: TAZARA Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Transport in Tanzania / Rail transport / TAZARA Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Rovos Rail Pride of Africa on the bridge across the Mpanga River in Tanzania. This viaduct is 160 feet high and the tunnel that it heads into is one-half mile long.
context_page_description: Transport in Tanzania includes road, rail, air and maritime networks. The road network is 86,472 kilometres long, of which 12,786 kilometres is classified as trunk road and 21,105 kilometres as regional road. The rail network consists of 3,682 kilometres of track. Commuter rail service is in Dar es Salaam only. There are 28 airports, with Julius Nyerere International being the largest and the busiest. Ferries connect Mainland Tanzania with the islands of Zanzibar. Several other ferries are active on the countries' rivers and lakes.
context_section_description: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), formerly also called TanZam Railway operates 1,860 km (1,156 mi) of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge track (matching Zambian/Southern African networks) between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia, of which 969 km or 602 mi is in Tanzania and 891 km or 554 mi in Zambia). It is not a part of Tanzania Railways Corporation, and because of the difference in gauge there is no rail connection between the networks.  There is a container trans-shipment yard to transfer freight containers between TAZARA and Tanzania Railways Corporation  at Kidatu near Morogoro. This allows containers to be shipped from as far as Uganda and Kenya via the Lake Victoria train ferries and the Kidatu yard to the Southern African rail network via Zambia.
  Dar es Salaam - ocean port -  8 km from TRC line 
  Kidatu - break of gauge connection with Tanzania Railways Corporation, with a container trans-shipment facility
  Mbeya
  Tunduma - Zambian border
caption: Rovos Rail, a luxury train entering a tunnel on the TAZARA line
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