Roger Farnworth Railways

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The Railways of Tanzania again. ....
Part 12 – The South

The featured image for this article is a Tanganyika Railway (TR) oil-fuelled RV (River) class 4-8-2 locomotive, later classified as the East African Railways (EAR) 21 class. Locomotives of this Class were used on the Southern Province Railway in the late 1950s and early 1960s, © Public Domain. [6][1: p303]

The linked article looks at attempts by the German protectorate to expand a rail network into the south before WW1 and links to efforts made under the British Mandate to establish a Ground Nut Scheme and an associated railway and the locomotives that were active on that line.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/07/29/rai...the-south/