page_title: Kigoma
section_title: Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Kigoma / Transport / Railway
caption_attribution_description: This is an image with the theme "Africa on the Move or Transport" from: Tanzania
context_page_description: Kigoma is a town and lake port in north western Tanzania, on the north eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. It serves as the capital for the surrounding Kigoma Region and has a population of 135,234 and an elevation of 775 m.
  The historic trading town of Ujiji is 6 km south-east of Kigoma.
context_section_description: The Central Line of the Tanzania Railways Corporation runs from Kigoma to the Port of Dar es Salaam on to the Indian Ocean coast via Tabora and Dodoma. It was completed in 1915 when Kigoma was part of German East Africa. In Tabora, there is a connection to Mwanza on Lake Victoria, with ferry connections to other Tanzanian lake shore places, and formerly Uganda. At Tabora you can also travel by train to Mpanda. For a time in early 2010, the line was closed but service has apparently been restored.
caption: The Kigoma rail station during the day time.
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