Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij 1895

Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij 1895

AV: Opening van den Delegoabaai Spoorweg

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AV: Opening van den Delegoabaai Spoorweg

Delegoabaai = Delagoa Bay Maputo Bay = (Mozambique ) = Baía de Maputo

So a strategically important Eisenbahnseeverbindung the South African Republic ( Transvaal ) .

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" The Nederlandsch -Zuid - Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij ( NZASM ; German : Dutch -South African railway company ) , South African Republic ( Transvaal Republic ) was founded on 21 June 1887 the then State The concession was until 1894 due to the completion of a rail link from the port of Delagoa . to Pretoria .
The line was opened on November 2, 1894 and should allow for independence from the British transport routes for the Transvaal. Furthermore, the line should be continued eastwards to the then Portuguese Mozambique without touching British territory.

The NZASM referred locomotives mainly of German locomotive factories , since the Republic of South Africa cooperated closely with the then German Reich in political and economic terms.
After the Second Boer War , the NZASM was adopted by resolution of the South African Republic and their integration into the British Empire and the Union of South Africa by the Central South African Railways. "