World’s Most Dangerous Railway Tracks | The Tazara, Tanzania-Zambia Railway | Free Documentary

World’s Most Dangerous Railway Lines - The Tazara,Tanzania-Zambia Railway Deadliest Roads - All Episodes: In 1970, deep in the heart of Africa, construction began on one of the most daring infrastructure projects in Africa, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, or Tazara for short. Red clouds of dust still hang over the pits of the copper mines in Zambia’s Copperbelt, for whose removal China financed the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. The train route with which the inland got its own transport route to the coast of East Africa was the liberation from the dependence on the neighboring apartheid-ruled countries of East Africa. Back then, the World Bank and other international investors shied away from the risk and refused a loan. They found the route too difficult, and a railway is not economically viable. But within six years, the daring project, worth the equivalent of $ 500 million, was completed by Chinese
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