Talk:Cape to Cairo Railway

Alternate route?
Assuming that German territory blocked a route via Tanzania, would a route via the friendly Belgian Congo be viable for the Cape-Cairo line?

Hello! It may have beentechnicallypossible since the Belgian Empire and the British Empire were allies. However, the logistical problems of the harsh vegetation and potential diseases, as opposed to the much easier terrain of German Tanganyika, would have made a route through modern Tanzania ideal. And if construction between upper Rhodesia (modern Zambia) and Kenya took place during the Great Depression, it might have been not economically feasible without the Tanzania territory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hakzah (talk • contribs) 23:29, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

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First Paragraph is False - not a good start
"The Cape to Cairo Railway is a railway line that crosses Africa from south to north, being the largest and most important railroad of that continent. It serves as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt.[1][2]" The first paragraph is extremely misleading, in fact completely untrue. This railway is/was a project which was nowhere near completed and there is no sign of it happening in the near future, so the first paragraph is wrong. "is", "being". "it serves" should be changed to something like "was planned to be", "would have been" and "would have served"

In fact the main box top right states: "Only a few stretches in operation" Ideally this article should be renamed to Cape to Cairo Railway Project.

Reference [1] is to a mining company's site which has a short paragraph about the Benguela railway from Angola to DRC, completely inadequate. Reference [2] does not exist.

Chris.Bristol (talk) 17:27, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Electrification
The info box states the type of electrification used/planned. Is there any evidence for this? Chris.Bristol (talk) 23:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)