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2010-02-28 21:42:37 UTC
Re. Sub-Sahara african railways that degenerated after the colonialists
were expelled.
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http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=6&aid=28&dir=2008/September/Monday29
Face-To-Face With BR Spokesperson [Botswana Railways]
Monitor: BR used to run a daytime train service between Gaborone
and Francistown. Is it in your plans to bring back the service?
Masenya: On October 24, 2006, our southbound passenger train
derailed at the Madiaela level crossing. As a result of the
accident, six coaches and the locomotive were severely damaged. The
total cost of the damage (as a result of the derailment) was P4.4
million. The coaches involved in the accident had never been put
back on the main line due to the severity of the damage. The
locomotive, however, was repaired shortly after the accident - the
repairs included bodywork and painting, and it was back in
operation six weeks following the accident. Botswana Railways has
no immediate plans to reinstate the day passenger train from
Gaborone to Francistown and viceversa, due to shortage of passenger
coaches.
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Botswana has basically ONE main road, and parallel railway-line:
running from the capital - Gaberone to Fransistown.
So now the "day passenger train from Gaborone to Francistown" is
defunct. Why do the PeeCee clowns persist in calling Africa "developing" ?
Since the railway lines and stations were known as 'Rhodesian railway',
I'd like to know who financed, built, and owned it originally.
Can someone tell ?
In the 80's when these shiny new coaches, with membrane-switches to roll
the blinds [IIRC between the 2 glass panes] of the non-opening windows,
were an inapproapriate fascination for the golliwog passengers, I predicted
that they'd soon fail.
The windows were designed as non-opening for airconditioning reasons, but
some said that it was to stop the coons throwing drink cans out the windows.
As indeed tests proved that it was not possible to be out of sight of a can
over the several hundred km road-side between Gaborone and Francistown.
The direct Zimbabwe - S.africa link also became non-functional some years back.
And for security reasons S.Afican passenger service has decreased relative to
the exploding population, to the absurd situation that busses *at the railway
stations* transport passengers between towns. You're very unlikely to be mugged
inside a bus, and there are no long platforms and corridors to negotiate.
Understandably, the organisational skills needed to run a railway system are
beyond the capabilities of the negroid.
Contrast this to the railway systems of India and China.
Having experienced it, I can well believe that the railway is WHAT holds
India together in many senses. It really adds value to their society.
were expelled.
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http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=6&aid=28&dir=2008/September/Monday29
Face-To-Face With BR Spokesperson [Botswana Railways]
Monitor: BR used to run a daytime train service between Gaborone
and Francistown. Is it in your plans to bring back the service?
Masenya: On October 24, 2006, our southbound passenger train
derailed at the Madiaela level crossing. As a result of the
accident, six coaches and the locomotive were severely damaged. The
total cost of the damage (as a result of the derailment) was P4.4
million. The coaches involved in the accident had never been put
back on the main line due to the severity of the damage. The
locomotive, however, was repaired shortly after the accident - the
repairs included bodywork and painting, and it was back in
operation six weeks following the accident. Botswana Railways has
no immediate plans to reinstate the day passenger train from
Gaborone to Francistown and viceversa, due to shortage of passenger
coaches.
===========
Botswana has basically ONE main road, and parallel railway-line:
running from the capital - Gaberone to Fransistown.
So now the "day passenger train from Gaborone to Francistown" is
defunct. Why do the PeeCee clowns persist in calling Africa "developing" ?
Since the railway lines and stations were known as 'Rhodesian railway',
I'd like to know who financed, built, and owned it originally.
Can someone tell ?
In the 80's when these shiny new coaches, with membrane-switches to roll
the blinds [IIRC between the 2 glass panes] of the non-opening windows,
were an inapproapriate fascination for the golliwog passengers, I predicted
that they'd soon fail.
The windows were designed as non-opening for airconditioning reasons, but
some said that it was to stop the coons throwing drink cans out the windows.
As indeed tests proved that it was not possible to be out of sight of a can
over the several hundred km road-side between Gaborone and Francistown.
The direct Zimbabwe - S.africa link also became non-functional some years back.
And for security reasons S.Afican passenger service has decreased relative to
the exploding population, to the absurd situation that busses *at the railway
stations* transport passengers between towns. You're very unlikely to be mugged
inside a bus, and there are no long platforms and corridors to negotiate.
Understandably, the organisational skills needed to run a railway system are
beyond the capabilities of the negroid.
Contrast this to the railway systems of India and China.
Having experienced it, I can well believe that the railway is WHAT holds
India together in many senses. It really adds value to their society.