Kapiri M'poshi (F 3)

Name: Kapiri M'poshi

Kapiri Mposhi is a small town in Zambia. Located north of Lusaka, it stands on the Great North Road and is significant for the railway connection between Zambia Railways line from Kitwe to Lusaka and Livingstone and eastern terminal (New Kapiri Mposhi) of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority from Dar-es-Salaam since 1976.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_stations_in_Zambia

Kapiri Mposhi on the ZR line is no station, just some tracks out in the field, but the train staff got me a taxi, and the taxi driver knew the TAZARA train would leave at 14.54, and it was only 2 km to New Kapiri Mposhi station, from where these trains leave.
The TZR train runs through a beautiful landscape, and in Tanzania I saw a lot of antelopes, buffaloes and giraffes. Already when leaving New Kapiri Mposhi the “Mukuba Express” (Copper in the Bemba language) was two hours late. We were supposed to arrive Dar-es-Salaam Thursday morning. In the afternoon the engine broke down, one station from Dar-es-Salaam. Everybody, except a young Bermudan-English couple with two small children and a lot of luggage and I, went the last 10 km or so by minibus. Finally a new engine arrived and pulled us in to Dar-es-Salaam TAZARA at 6. p.m.

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