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Railways Zambia, in 36 editions.
The entry for Zambia published Railways in 36 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2025. The text changed in 21 editions. Each is shown as published. Railways in every entry.
- editions changed the text
- 21
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Railroads” (1990 to 1995) and “Railways” (1996 to 2025).
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2025 edition
Same as 2024The same text in 5 editions, 1990 to 1994.
Published as “Railroads”
1,266 km, all 1.067-meter gauge; 13 km double track
1,266 km, all 1.067-meter gauge; 13 km double track
Published as “Railroads”
- total:
- 1,273 km
- narrow gauge:
- 1,273 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: not a part of Zambia Railways is the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri M'poshi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; 891 km of the TAZARA line transit Zambia
Rewritten: too little of the 1994 text remains to mark the changes.
total: 1,273 km
narrow gauge: 1,273 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: not a part of Zambia Railways is the Tanzania-Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge
track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri M'poshi where it connects
to the Zambia Railways system; 891 km of the TAZARA line transit
Zambia
- total:
- 2,164 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri M'poshi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia Railways
total: 1,273 2,164 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 1,273 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: not a part the total includes 891 km of Zambia Railways is the Tanzania-Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge
track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri M'poshi where it connects
to the Zambia Railways system; 891 km of the TAZARA line transitis not a part of Zambia
Railways
The same text in 1997 and 1998.
- total:
- 2,164 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia Railways
total: 2,164 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge
track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri M'poshi Mposhi where it connects
the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia
- total:
- 2,164 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia Railways
total: 2,164 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge
track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to
the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia Railways
- total:
- 2,164 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia Railways
total: 2,164 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway
- total:
- 2,164 km (1995) narrow gauge: 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track) note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system;
- TAZARA is not a part of the Zambia Railways system;
- Zambia Railways assets are scheduled for concessioning in 2001
total: 2,164 km (1995)
- total:
- 2,157 km
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double-track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of the Zambia Railways system; Zambia Railways assets are scheduled for concessioning (2002)
total: 2,164 2,157 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,164 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track) double-track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of the Zambia Railways system; Zambia Railways assets are scheduled for concessioning in 2001 (2002)
- total:
- 2,173 km
- narrow gauge:
- 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2002)
Rewritten: too little of the 2002 text remains to mark the changes.
total: 2,173 km
narrow gauge: 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2002)
- total:
- 2,173 km
- narrow gauge:
- 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2003)
total: 2,173 km
narrow gauge: 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2002) (2003)
- total:
- 2,173 km
- narrow gauge:
- 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2004)
total: 2,173 km
narrow gauge: 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2003) (2004)
- total:
- 2,173 km
- narrow gauge:
- 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2005)
total: 2,173 km
narrow gauge: 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2004) (2005)
The same text in 2007 and 2008.
- total:
- 2,157 km
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2006)
total: 2,173 2,157 km
narrow gauge: 2,173 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2005) (2006)
- total:
- 2,157 km
- country comparison to the world:
- 70
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008)
total:
2,157 km
country comparison to the world:
70
narrow gauge:
2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note:
includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2006) (2008)
- total:
- 2,157 km
- country comparison to the world:
- 71
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008)
total:
2,157 km
country comparison to the world:70 71
narrow gauge:
2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note:
includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008)
- total:
- 2,157 km
- country comparison to the world:
- 69
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2010)
total:
2,157 km
country comparison to the world:71 69
narrow gauge:
2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note:
includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008) (2010)
The same text in 2012 and 2013.
- total:
- 2,157 km
- country comparison to the world:
- 69
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008)
total:
2,157 km
country comparison to the world:
69
narrow gauge:
2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note:
includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2010) (2008)
- total:
- 2,922 km
- country comparison to the world:
- 58
- narrow gauge:
- 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2013)
total:2,157 2,922 km
country comparison to the world:69 58
narrow gauge:
2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note:
includes 891 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2008) (2013)
- total:
- 3,126 km
- narrow gauge:
- 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2014)
country comparison to the world: 58
total:
2,922country comparison to the world:narrow gauge:
58
2,157
note:(2013) (2014)
country comparison to the world: 58
The same text in 2016 and 2017.
- total:
- 3,126 km
- narrow gauge:
- 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2014)
country comparison to the world: 57
total: 3,126 km
narrow gauge: 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2014)
country comparison to the world: 58 57
The same text in 4 editions, 2018 to 2021.
- total:
- 3,126 km (2014)
- narrow gauge:
- 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)
total: 3,126 km (2014)
narrow gauge: 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2014)
country comparison to the world: 57
The same text in 4 editions, 2022 to 2025.
- total:
- 3,126 km (2014)
- narrow gauge:
- 3,126 km (2014) 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)
total: 3,126 km (2014)
narrow gauge: 3,126 km (2014) 1.067-m gauge (2014)
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Zambia: Railways.” The World Factbook, 1990–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/zambia/railways.