page_title: Cape to Cairo Railway Project
hierarchical_section_title: Cape to Cairo Railway Project
caption_attribution_description: English: Missionaries and steam train, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 Black and white lantern slide showing a group of male and female European missionaries boarding or descending from passenger carriages on a steam train, in Belgian colonial Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo). All missionaries are smartly dressed and wear hats or pith helmets. The missionaries are watched by a group of Congolese men and women in Western attire. The train runs on the Cape to Cairo Railway, an unfinished project envisioned by businessman and entrpreneur Sir Cecil Rhodes to traverse Africa from south to north with railway line, joining disparate British colonial territories. This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo-Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900. Photographer: Unknown Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-83.tif Coverage date: 1900/1915 Subject (unesco): Trains; Railway transport; Missionary work Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s Subject (corporate name): Congo Balolo Mission Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-83.tif Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): Congo Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm Geographic subject (continent): Africa Rights: Contact the repository for details. Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Congo Lantern Slides (CSCNWW33/OS10) Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk Date created: 1900/1915 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Subject (aat genre): exterior views Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources Geographic subject: railroad features File: CSCNWW33/OS10/83 Subject (lcsh): Steam locomotives; Railroads; Missionaries
context_page_description: The Cape to Cairo Railway was a project to create a railway line crossing Africa from south to north, it would have been the largest and most important railroad of that continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt.
  Important parts of its intended course to cross Africa are incomplete or inoperative due to wars, lack of financial capital, geographic and geological obstacles, and low political will.
  This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt.
context_section_description: The Cape to Cairo Railway was a project to create a railway line crossing Africa from south to north, it would have been the largest and most important railroad of that continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt.
  Important parts of its intended course to cross Africa are incomplete or inoperative due to wars, lack of financial capital, geographic and geological obstacles, and low political will.
  This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western  colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt.
caption: Boarding Cape to Cairo Railway in the Belgian Congo, c. 1900-1915.
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