Reference Sources for Botswana, Zambian and Zimbabwean Railways

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Reference Sources for Botswana, Zambian and Zimbabwean Railways

Following on from the Nigerian reference sources this document is to assist in research on the railways of Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. You are encouraged to look at the general African file for further ideas especially for railways in neighbouring countries.

Firstly, a word of warning, there has been a spate in recent years of people finding books that are out of copyright, OCR’ing them and offering the copies for sale. Admittedly they do warn that the copies may not be perfect. The Trust brought a copy of a French book on African Colonial Railways that is extremely rare but found that no more than 25% of the pages were legible.

All three countries have detailed but dated history of their railways.

On this page, the term Rhodesia Railways as an overarching cover for the current Botswana, Zambian and Zimbabwean Railways, and their various constituents, which include Beira and Mashonaland Railway, Rhodesia Railways, the National Railways of Zimbabwe etc. It has proved a bit confusing as to if an article should be in the Rhodesian section, or Zambia or Zimbabwe. It was decided to list articles with reference to which country they referred to, so there are some articles on Northern Rhodesia in the Rhodesian section rather than the Zambian section.

Some of the titles below are available in the British Library and can be found by searching their catalogue.

Journal articles listed should be available through JSTOR or appropriate online sources.

In producing these research files use has been made of the following reference source: TRANSPORT RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY, Gordon Pirie, African Centre for Cities University of Cape Town December 2018, however much additional material has been added.

The Rhodesiana Society started publishing in 1956 and the volumes produced until 1979 are available for download at Publications of the Rhodesiana Society. Subsequent to Rhodesia becoming Zimbabwe the Journal continued as Heritage of Zimbabwe commencing in 1981 but unfortunately, they are not available online nor is there a listing of articles produced.

There was also a Rhodesian History Journal produced from 1970-78 by the Central African Historical Association. Again, there seems to be no listing of articles produced.

Zimbabwe Field Guide is a website that has articles on various aspects of Zimbabwe and some of these are railway related.

The Rhodesia Railway Review started publication in 1911 and continued until 1984 when it changed its name to Railroader and then continued until 2004. BORHT has various issues dating from 1952.

There is a Railway Museum in Bulawayo. It is situated behind the Bulawayo Railway Station, in the Raylton suburb of Bulawayo. Access is possible via the pedestrian footbridge at the station. The museum is located in an area that was previously a workshop used in the maintenance of refrigeration wagons. Opened in 1972, the Museum displays a wealth of small exhibits and models as well as steam and diesel electric locomotives. The Museum is owned by the National Railways of Zimbabwe and is managed by the NRZ Historical Committee, made up of railwaymen from various departments. It does not seem to have it’s own webpage, but there is a Friends of the Bulawayo Railway Museum on Facebook. There is also the NRZ webpage or try My Guide Zimbabwe.

There is also the Kadoma Steam Centre.

Botswana Specific Railway Books and Articles

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Hamer, ED	Locomotives of Zimbabwe and Botswana	2001	Frank Stenvalls Förlag	Malmö
Mwase, Ngila RL	Reflections on the proposed Botswana-Namibia Trans-Kalahari railway	1987	Eastern Africa Economic Review, 3, 65-75
Williams, Alan	African Steam Safari: Luxor to Sir Lowry's Pass	2020	Association of Railway Enthusiasts (ARE), Australia

Rhodesia Specific Railway Books and Articles

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Acworth, William Mitchell, 1850-1925	Report of Mr. William Mitchell Acworth, Commissioner appointed to enquire into railway questions in Southern Rhodesia	1918	Government Printer	Salisbury	See also MacDonald
Acworth, WM; Bourchier, Robert Sherard Wrey, Sir bart.; Hull, EA; McDonald, JG	Report of Mr. William Mitchell Acworth, commissioner appointed to inquire into railway questions in Southern Rhodesia. Republished by the Railway Commission Committee for the information of the people of Rhodesa; together with a memorandum by the Committee dealing with the report; note on the Messina Railway by Sir Bourchier Wrey, bart., and Mr. E.A. Hull; a reply to the report from Mr. J.G. McDonald, O.B.E., on behalf of the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines (incorporated); a statement by the Chamber of Commerce, Salisbury, relating to railage and prices of foodstuffs in Salisbury; and an extract from the Annual report of the General Manager of Railways and Harbours of the Union of South Africa for period of 15 months, ending March 31st, 1918.	1918	Railway Commission Committee, Bulawayo.; Publisher: Argus Print. and Pub. Co., 1918	Bulawayo
Anon	Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom on their own behalf and on behalf of the Governments of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and the Government of the United States of America regarding the Development of the Rhodesia Railways. With schedule and exchange of letters. London, 18th July, 1951, etc.	1951	H.M.S.O.	London
Anon	Convention between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on their own behalf and on behalf of the government of Southern Rhodesia and the government of the republic of Portugal relative to the port of Beira and connected railways : With schedule and exchanges of notes and letters. Lisbon, 17th. June, 1950 / Presented by the Secretary of State For Foreign Affairs To Parliament By Command Of His Majesty. Great Britain.	1950	H.M.S.O.	London	Also published in Salisbury
Anon	Estimates of extraordinary expenditure to be defrayed from loan funds. Rhodesia Railways-£5,000,000	1953		Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Anon	Exchange of notes between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on their own behalf and on behalf of the government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the government of the United States of America amending the agreement of the 18th.of July, 1951, regarding the development of the Rhodesia railways. London, September 30/October 21, 1954	1955	H.M.S.O.	London
Anon	FURTHER REPORT ON THE RAILWAY ROUTE FROM BEIRA TO MASHONALAND	1894	FOREIGN OFFICE Published by HMSO	London
Anon	Lusaka : the new capital of Northern Rhodesia / introduction by Robert Home	2013	Routledge,	New York
Anon	Railways in Rhodesia. [With illustrations.]	1904	Waterlow & Sons	London
Anon	Report on Central African Rail Link Development Survey (2 vols.)	1952	Colonial Office
Anon	REPORT ON THE RAILWAY ROUTE FROM BEIRA TO MASHONALAND	1893	FOREIGN OFFICE Published by HMSO	London
Anon	Report on the railway system of Southern Rhodesia	1925	Government Printer	Salisbury
Anon	Rescco Railway Engineering and Steel Construction Co. Structural Engineers, Erection Contractors and Manufacturers of Railway Rolling Stock Bulawayo Zimbabwe	1990	Rescco
Anon	Rhodesia Railways	1969	South African transport, v1 n3 (Aug 1969):8-9
Anon	The Engineman's Handbook on Locomotives	1948	The Rhodesia Railways Ltd.	Bulawayo
Anon	Zimbabwe National Railways Museum Brochure	c1980
Barnes, JC	The Beira Mashonaland Railway	1977	Rhodesiana, 37, 1-16
Batwell, J	Railways at war	1986	Heritage Zimbabwe, 6, 70-75
Batwell, JM	The Railway that moved a town – Centenary of the Beira Railway	1997	Heritage of Zimbabwe No 16, 1997
Baxter, Anthony	THE TWO FOOT GAUGE ENIGMA; BEIRA RAILWAY 1890-1900	1998	Plateway Press	East Harling, Norfolk
Boggie, Alex	From ox-waggon to railway. Being a brief history of Rhodesia and the Matabele nation	1897	'Times' Printing Works	Bulawayo
BOLZE, Louis W	The Railway Comes to Bulawayo	1968	Rhodesiana, 18, 47-84
Burrett, Robert and Gordon Murray, Robin Taylor	Iron Spine & Ribs: The Railways of south Central Africa	2020	Lulu.com, United States
Calvert, GM	The Zambesi Saw Mills Railway	1966	Rhodesiana, 15, 12-25
Calvert, MJ	Sitimela	2005	Baroteses Development Trust	Livinstone, Zambia
Campbell, Ethel	A young lady's journey to Umtali in 1895	1963	Rhodesiana, 8, 9-15
Carlyle-Gall, C, ed	Six Thousand Miles of Sunshine Travel over the South African Railways ... Reprinted in England from “Mines of Africa” and “Mines of Rhodesia.”	1937	South African Railways	London ; Johannesburg
Commission of Inquiry into the Rating Structure of the Rhodesia Railways	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Rating Structure of the Rhodesia Railways, etc.	1959	RHODESIA AND NYASALAND, Federation of	Salisbury
Court of Enquiry	Report of Railway Court of Enquiry, 1929	1929	Govt. Printer	Bulawayo
Croxton, Anthony Hugh	Railways of Rhodesia. The Story of the Beira, Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways	1973	David & Charles	Newton Abbot
Croxton, Anthony Hugh	Railways of Zimbabwe. The Story of the Beira, Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways	1982	David & Charles	Newton Abbot
Croxton, Anthony Hugh	Rhodesia's light railways	1965	Rhodesiana, 13, 57- 68		Rhodesiana 13
Day, JR	Railways of Southern Africa	1963	Arthur Baker	London
de Mounteney, ARO ed.,	The South African Customs Duties, Shipping Freights, from various countries, to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenço Marques and Beira, and the railage from these ports to all towns on the railway line in South Africa and Rhodesia. Together with the customs tariffs and other useful information.	1920	Central News Agency	Cape Town ; Johannesburg
Dominion Office	The Rhodesia Railways Ltd	1946	H.M.S.O.	London
Doyle, Siobhan	Engineering places: Victoria Falls Bridge	2022	Engineering & technology. Volume 16:Number 9 (2022, January 21st); pp 1-2
Durrant, AE	The Smoke that Thunders	1997	African Publishing Group	Harare
East African Railways and Harbours Administration	Report on an engineering survey of a rail link between the East African and Rhodesian railway systems	1952	East African Railways and Harbours Administration	Nairobi
Elges, EF	North to Bulawayo and Beyond: the Study of the Cape to Cairo Railway	1967	MA, Wesleyan University
Frankel, S Herbert	Interim report on the Rhodesia railways	1943		Johannesburg
Freeman, Fox, and Partners	Report on locomotive policy for Rhodesia railways	1957	Freeman, Fox, and Partners	London
Gao, James Zheng	Paving a Way to Eldorado: Roads, Railways and Political Economy in Matabeleland, 1888-1914	1994	PhD, Yale University
Gibbons, EG	The Background to the Rhodesian Railway Act, 1926	1975	MA, University of Rhodesia, Harare (Salisbury)
Griffen, Arthur	Rhodesia Railways	1948	Railway Gazette	London
Hamer, ED	Steam locomotives of Rhodesia Railways, the story of steam, 1892-1979	1981	Books of Zimbabwe	Bulawayo
Hamer, ED	Steam locomotives of Rhodesia Railways. The Story of Steam 1892-1979	1981	Frank Stenvalls Förlag	Malmö.
Hammond, Frederick Dawson, Brig-Gen, C.B.E. D.S.O.	Report ... on the Railway System of Southern Rhodesia, etc.	1925		Salisbury
Harragin, W	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Rating Structure of the Rhodesia Railways	1959	Govt. Printer	Salisbury	Harragin was chairman
HASLBECK, Guenter & WARDALE, David	Steam on 4 Continents Part II - Africa	1986	Self-published
Hawkins, Anthony M	The Railway Rating Policy of Rhodesia Railways	1963	BLitt, Oxford University
Heatley, JTP	Development of Rhodesia and its railway systems in relation to oceanic highways	1905	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 21, 137- 142		See also Smithsonian Inst Annual Rept, 1905, Washimgton, DC, 1906
Howitt, Harold, Sir	The Rhodesia Railways Ltd. Report by Sir Harold Howitt… on state ownership 21st December,1945	1946	Dominion Office	London
Hutchinson, Robert C	Robert's People: A Life of Sir Robert Williams, 1860-1938	1971	Chatto & Windus
Kanduza, AC	Underdevelopment in Northern Rhodesia, 1918-1960: a Study of Customs Tariff and Railway Freight Policies	1982	PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax.
Kanduza, AM	Customs agreements, railway rates and settler agriculture in the Rhodesias, 1910-1939.	1981	Zambia Journal of History, 1, 33- 42
Kanduza, AM	The Impact of Railway Rates and Customs Agreements on Farmers in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, 1910-1939	1979	MA, University of Zambia,	Lusaka
Kanduza, Ackson M	The political economy of underdevelopment in Northern Rhodesia, 1918-1960 : a case study of customs tariff and railway freight policies	c1986	University Press of America,	Lanham, MD
Katzenellenbogen, Simon E	The building of the Benguela Railway and the related railway and economic development of Northern Rhodesia and Katanga, 1900-1931	1969	University of Oxford, PhD thesis
Katzenellenbogen, Simon Ellis	Railways and the copper mines of Katanga	1973	Clarendon Press	Oxford
Katzenellenbogen, Simon Ellis	Zambia and Rhodesia: prisoners of the past. A note on the history of railway politics in central Africa	1974	African Affairs, 73, 63-66.
Keller, JW	The truth about the Rhodesian railwayman	1921	Rhodesian Railway Review, 1-9.
Kemp, AR	Rhodesia railways. Accor Congress: future development in Rhodesia railways. Arni Congress: Rhodesia railways in the service of industry.	1965	Rhodesia Railways	Bulawayo
Letcher, Owen, illustrated by Rose Martin	When life was rusted through: a tale of northern Rhodesia and of the Beira and Mashonaland railways	1973	Books of Rhodesia	Bulawayo	Originally published in Johannesburg, 1934
Lunn, Jonathan Robert	Capital and Labour in the Rhodesian Railway System, 1890-1939	1987	DPhil, Oxford University, St Anthony's College
Lunn, Jonathan Robert	Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1888-1947	1996	Palgrave Macmillan	Basingstoke
Lunn, Jonathan Robert	The political economy of primary railway construction in the Rhodesias, 1890-1911	1992	Journal of African History, 33 (2), 239-254
Lunn, Jonathan Robert	White labour on the Rhodesian railway system	1990	In Collected Seminar Papers. London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
MACDONALD, James Gordon, Sir, K.B.E.	Reply from Mr. J. G. MacDonald, O.B.E., on behalf of the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines to Report by Mr. William M. Acworth on Railway Questions of Southern Rhodesia	1918			See also Acworth
Marshall Hole, Hugh	Rhodesian Railways	?	?	?
Maylam, Paul R	The making of the Kimberley-Bulawayo railway: a study in the operations of the British South Africa Company	1977	Rhodesian History, 8, 13-34
Mulenga, Friday K	Violence and verbal abuse on the railways in Northern Rhodesia, 1945-1964	1995	Zambia Journal of History, 8, 21-33
Muskett, HB	Steel highway; the story of the Rhodesia railways, 1897-1957	1957	Rhodesian Graphic	Salisbury
Mwewa, Parkinson B	The African Railway Workers Union, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (Rhodes-Livingstone communication 10)	1958	Rhodes-Livingstone Institute	Lusaka
Pabst, Martin	Tram and Trolley in Africa	1989	Röhr Verlag	Krefeld
Pattison, RG	Thundering Smoke	2005	Sable Publishing House	Ilminster
Pauling and Co. Ltd	The Works of Pauling and Co. Ltd	1930	London
Pauling, George. Ed. David Buchan	The Chronicles of a Contractor : being the autobiography of the late George Pauling	1926	Constable & Co	London	Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1969
Reichardt, M, and Duncan, D	Rail transport and the political economy of southern Africa, 1965-1980	1990	Africa Insight, 20 (2), 100-110
Rhodesia Railways	Garratt locomotives for Rhodesia Railways fitted with the Lentz patent poppet valve	1926	Railway Engineer	Westminster
Rhodesia Railways	Rhodesia Railways magazine : special railway diamond jubilee issue	1957	Rhodesia Railways magazine, vol. 6, no. 7	Bulawayo
Rhodesia Railways Historical Committee	LOCOMOTIVES OF RHODESIA RAILWAYS BAXTER, R A H (Foreword)	1970	Rhodesia Railways Historical Committee	Bulawayo
Rhodesia Railways Historical Committee	Rhodesia Railways Museum	1975	Rhodesia Railways Historical Committee	Bulawayo
Rhodesia Railways Limited	The Rhodesia Railways Limited : a description of the railway from Vryburg to the Zambesi and beyond	[19--]	publisher not identified	Place of publication not identified
Rhodesia Railways.	Railways in Rhodesia	1904?	Waterlow & Sons	London	Is this the same as Marshall Hole’s book?
Rhodesia Railways	Rhodesia Railways	1953	Rhodesia Railways	Bulawayo
Rhodesia Railways	Special "historic" train : Khami-Bulawayo : opening of the 75th Jubilee celebrations of the city of Bulawayo 3rd May, 1968	1968	Public Relations Branch, Rhodesia Railways	Bulawayo
Rhodesia Railways	The Trailmakers : the story of Rhodesia Railways	1973	Published for Rhodesia Railways by Graham Pub. Co., publishers of Illustrated Life Rhodesia	Salisbury
Rhodesia Commission to Investigate the Grievances which gave rise to the Strike amongst the Employees of the Rhodesia Railways	Report of Commission appointed by His Excellency the Governor to Investigate the Grievances which gave rise to the Strike amongst the Employees of the Rhodesia Railways and certain other matters affecting Africans employed in industry	1946	Printed for the Government Stationery Office by the Rhodesian Print. and Pub. Co., 1946	Salisbury
Roberts, Peter	Railway Engineer in Rhodesia - Charles Murray Ingledew's Photograph Albums (1901-1908)	2023	Amazon Digital
Shepherd, Gordon	Old Zimbabwe’s Railways and More	2018	Stenlake Publishing
Shoebridge, Clyde, L	The Umtali Tramways Ltd	1969	Rhodesiana, 21, 1-9
Smith WRIGHT, EH	Railways in Rhodesia: a few notes on their construction and on the country through which they pass ... With a description of the Victoria Falls by E. F. Knight. (Prospects of Farming in Southern Rhodesia by E. Ross Townsend.)	1904	Waterlow & Sons	London
Sölch, Werner	Kap-Kairo	1985	Alba	Dusseldorf
Southern Rhodesia	Report of the Industrial Tribunal on the Disputes between the Rhodesia Railways and the Rhodesia Railways Workers' Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union	1969	Govt Printer	Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia Government Notice	Agreement between the Government of Southern Rhodesia and the Government of Northern Rhodesia relating to the Rhodesia Railways	1963	Southern Rhodesia Government Notice 750B of 1963	Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia	Correspondence and memoranda relating to the ministers' negotiations in London in connection with the "Railways bill, 1926" Presented to the Legislative Assembly, 1926	1926	Govt. printer	Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia	Sinoia-Kafue and Beitbridge Railways Enquiry Commission	1930	Government Printer	Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia Court of Enquiry	Interim report of commission appointed to enquire into and report upon certain matters in dispute between the Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways and the employees of the said railways	1927	Govt. Printer	Salisbury
Stöckl, Fritz, Dr.	Im Land der Beyer-Garratt	1975	Verker in Africa	Krefeld
Talbot, E	Steam from Kenya to the Cape: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Steam Locomotives of East, Central and South Africa	1975	Continental Railway Circle	Harrow
TANSER, GH AND SENATOR BRENDON ..	TRAIN JOURNEY TO MARANDELLAS. HISTORY OF MARANDELLAS, BROMLEY AND MELFORT AREAS	1978	Rhodesiana, 39, 66-78
Taylor, RD	Gweru: a railway centre	2001	Heritage of Zimbabwe, 20, 61- 81
Taylor, RD	The Mutare-Harare railway	2000	Heritage of Zimbabwe, 19, 87-103
Taylor, R.D.	The Planet Arcturus Railway	1998	Heritage of Zimbabwe No. 17, P74-80
Thornhill, Dave R (compiled by)	Steam in South Africa and Rhodesia	1976	World Steam Ltd	U.K.
Tredgold, Robert, Sir	Report of investigation into the grievances which gave rise to the strike amongst the African employees of the Rhodesia Railways and the conditions of employment incidental to such grievances and to make recommendation for the elimination of any grievance proved to be well founded	1945	Govt. Printer	Lusaka
Turner, A	The growth of railway unionism in the Rhodesias, 1944- 1955	1975	In The Development of an African Working Class, edited by R. Sandbrook and R. Cohen, pp. 73-98. Longman	London
van Onsellen, Lennox	Head of Steel	1962	Howard Timmins	Cape Town
Varian, Henry Francis, 1876-1960	NOTES ON A SURVEY OF THE VICTORIA FALLS IN 1905-1906	1934	Geographical Journal, London
Varian, Henry Francis, 1876-1960	Some African Milestones	1953	George Ronald	Oxford	Republished by Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1973
Varian, Henry Francis, 1876-1960	THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BENGUELLA RAILWAY [ANGOLA]	1931	Geographical Journal
Vickery, Kenneth P	The Rhodesian Railways African strike of 1945, Part 2: cause, consequence, significance	1999	Journal of Southern African Studies, 25 (1), 49-71
Vickery, Kenneth P	Railways, railway culture, and 'industrial work discipline' in the Rhodesias	2013	In The Objects of Life in Central Africa: the History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980 edited by Robert Ross, Marja Hinfelaar and Iva Pesa, pp. 115-140. Brill	Leiden
Vickery, Kenneth P	The Rhodesian Railways African strike of 1945, Part 1: a narrative account	1998	Journal of Southern African Studies, 24 (3), 545-560
Ward, SG	An Introduction to Rhodesia	1956	Proceedings of the British Railways (Western Region) London Lecture and Debating Society Session 1955 - 56, no 429
West, JH	Railway economics in Rhodesia	1968	Rhodesian Journal of Economics, 2 (2), 48-59
Williams, Alan	African Steam Safari: Kisumu to The Great Karoo	2019	Australian Railway Enthusiast Limited
Wills, JT	The Cape to Cairo, the Bulawayo - Tanganyika and other railways	1899	Contemporary Review, 75, 159-168
Wilson Fox, H	Statement made by H. Wilson Fox ... to the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines, at Bulawayo, on February 26th, 1914	1914	Argus Print. and Pub. Co.	Bulawayo
Wright, Sam	Tracks across the veldt, memoirs of a Rhodesia Railwayman 1950-76	2006	Woodfield

Zambia Specific Railway Books and Articles

Given that Tanzania and Zambia share a railway, some of the reference sources will be repeated in the Tanzanian pages.

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Anon	Another link is forged. Inauguration of the Zambia-Tanzania railway project. October 26 and 28, 1970	1970	Government Printer?	Lusaka
Arnold, Guy	The TANZAM railway	2000	In World Strategic Highways, pp. 120-126. Fitzroy & Dearborn	London
Bailey, Martin	Chinese aid in action: building the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1979	World Development, 3, 587-593
Bailey, Martin	Freedom railroad	1976	Monthly Review 32-45
Bailey, Martin	Freedom Railway: China and the Tanzania-Zambia Link	1976	Collins	London
Briggs, J	The Tanzania-Zambia railway: review and prospects	1992	Geography, 77, 264-268
Cabinet Office	Why Zambia re-opened the southern railway route	[197-]	Contingency Planning Secretariat, Cabinet Office	Lusaka
Charles, JL	Zambia rail situation	1967	Canadian Geographical Journal, 75 (6), 206-217
Chisala, G	Railway unions in Zambia, 1945-1973	1974	In Zambian Land and Labour Studies, edited by Robin H. Palmer, pp. 86-100	Lusaka
Cliffe, Lionel	The implications of the TanZam railway for the liberation and development of south-eastern Africa	1973	In Land-locked Countries of Africa, edited by Zdenek Ceverenka, pp. 293-299. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies	Uppsala
Connell, J	Africa's brave new railway	1971	Geographical Magazine, 721- 726
Doganis, RS	Zambia's outlet to the sea: a case study in colonial transport development	1967	Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 1 (1), 46-51
Due, John F	Trends in rail transport in Zambia and Tanzania	1986	Utafiti (Tanzania), 8 (2), 43-58
Graham, JD	The TanZam railway: consolidating the peoples' development and building the internal economy	1974	Africa Today, 21 (3)
Haifang, Liu, and Monson, Jamie	Railway time: technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of TAZARA	2011	In African Engagements: Africa Negotiating an Emerging Multipolar World, edited by Tom Dietz, Kjell Havenik, Mayke Kaag and Terje Oestigaard, pp. 226-251. Brill	Leiden
Hall, Richard, and Peyman, Hugh	The Great Uhuru Railway: China's Showpiece in Africa	1976	Gollancz	London
Hicks, RE	Occupational prestige and its factors: a study of Zambian railway workers	1966	African Social Research, 1, 41-58
Hoyle, Brian Stewart	The proposed Tanzania-Zambia railway	1965	East African Geographical Review, (April), 51-52
Jiang, L and Wei, YG	Analysis of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Rail-Sea Intermodal Transportation Collection and Separation System	2015	applied mechanics and materials. Volume 744/746:Part 3(2015); 2015; 1777-1781
Kasuka S Mutukwa	Politics of the Tanzania-Zambia railway project : a study of Tanzania-China-Zambia relations	1979	University Press of America	Washington, DC
Katzenellenbogen, Simon Ellis	Zambia and Rhodesia: prisoners of the past. A note on the history of railway politics in central Africa	1974	African Affairs, 73, 63-66
Land, T	China's African railway	1968	Contemporary Review, 213, 24-27
Makoni, T	The economic appraisal of the Tan-Zam railway	1972	African Review (Dar-Es-Salaam), 2, 596-616
Monson, Jamie	Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania	2009	Indiana University Press	Bloomington
Monson, Jamie	Defending the people's railway in the era of liberalization: TAZARA in southern Tanzania	2006	Africa, 76 (1), 113-130
Monson, Jamie	Friends and strangers: China’s development principles in practice during the construction of the TAZARA Railway	2008	In Beyond Bandung, edited by Christopher Lee and James Brennan. University of Ohio Press	Athens, OH
Monson, Jamie	Liberating labor? Constructing anti-hegemony on the TAZARA railway in Tanzania, 1965-1976	2008	In China Returns to Africa: An Emerging Power and a Continent Embrace, edited by Christopher Alden, Daniel Large and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, pp. 197-219. Columbia University Press	New York
Monson, Jamie	Maisha: Life history and the history of livelihood along the TAZARA Railways in Tanzania	2003	In Sources and Methods of African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed, edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, pp. 312-328. University of Rochester Press	Rochester
Monson, Jamie	Moving goods in Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia: the scaffolding of stability in TAZARA’s dry port	2015	Comparativ, 25 (4)
Monson, Jamie	Remembering work on the Tazara Railway in Africa and China, 1965–2011: when “New Men” grow old	2013	African Studies Review, 56 (1), 45-64
Monson, Jamie	Working ahead of time: labor and modernization during the construction of the TAZARA railway, 1968-1986	2010	In Making a World After Empire: the Bandung Movement and its Political Afterlives, edited by Christopher J. Lee, pp. 235-265. Ohio University Press	Athens, OH
Mutukwa, Kasuka S	Politics of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Project	1977	University Press of America	Washington, DC
Mwansa, Kamukwamba	The development of industrial relations in the Tanzania Zambia railway authority	2014	University of Manchester, PhD thesis
Mwase, Ngila RL	Zambia, TAZARA and alternative outlets to the sea.	1987	Transport Reviews, 7, 191-206
Mwase, Ngila RL	Railway pricing in developing countries: a comparative analysis of the tariff and united costs of the TAZARA and of competing routes in southern Africa	1987	Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 21 (2), 198-217
Mwase, Ngila RL	The development impact of the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1984	Zimbabwe Journal of Economics, 1 (1), 16-28
Mwase, Ngila RL	The future of TAZARA in a post-apartheid southern Africa	1993	Southern African Perspectives (University of the Western Cape)	Belville
Mwase, Ngila RL	The Tanzania-Zambia railway: the Chinese loan and the pre-investment analysis revisited	1983	Journal of Modern African Studies, 21, 535-543
Osei-Hwedie, Bertha Zimba, and Osei-Hwedie, Kwaku	Tanzania Zambia Railroad (TAZARA): an Analysis of Zambia's Decision-Making in Transportation	1990	Brunswick	Lawrenceville, VA
Report of the Commission of Inquiry	Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of Zambia Railways	1978	Government Printer	Lusaka
Rettman, Rosalyn J	The Tanzam rail link: China's "loss leader" in Africa	1973/4	World Affairs, 136 (3), 232-258
Rosenthal, AB	Controlling The Line: Worker Strategies and Transport Capital on the Railroads of Ecuador, Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1916-1950	1990	PhD, University of Minnesota
Shepherd, Gordon	Old Zambia's railway and more	2012	Stenlake	Catrine
Sircar, Parbati K	The Great Uhuru (Freedom) Railway: China's Link to Africa	1978	China Report, 14 (2), 15-24
Song, Wei	Seeking new allies in Africa: China’s policy towards Africa during the Cold War as reflected in the construction of the Tanzania–Zambia railway	2015	Journal of modern Chinese history. Volume 9:Number 1(2015); 20150102; 46-65
Surhone, Lambert M	Rail Transport in Zambia : TAZARA Railway, Zambia Railways, Zambia, Railway System of Zambia, Kapiri Mposhi, Dar es Salaam, East African Railway Master Plan	2010	VDM Verlag Dr. Müller E.K.
Surhone, Lambert M	TAZARA Railway : Swahili Language, Landlocked Country, Mozambique Ports and Railways, Rhodesia, Turnkey, Zambia Railways, Tanzania Railways Corporation, Break-of-gauge, Transshipment, Loading Gauge	2010	VDM Verlag Dr. Müller E.K
White, Landeg	Bridging the Zambesi: a Colonial Folly	1993	Macmillan	Basingstoke
Yu, George T	Chinese aid to Africa: the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1975	In Chinese and Soviet Aid to Africa, edited by Warren Weinstein, pp. 29-55. Praeger	New York
Yu, George T	The Tanzania-Zambia railway: a case study in Chinese economic aid to Africa.	1980	In Soviet and Chinese Aid to African Nations, edited by Warren Weinstein and Thomas H. Henriken, pp. 117-144. Praeger	New York
Yu, George T	Working on the railroad: China and the Tanzania Zambia railway	1971	Asian Survey, 11 (11), 1101-1117
Zajontz, Tim	From the freedom struggle to a fight for economic survival – the Tanzania- Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)	2017	The SAASUM review. Volume 3 (2017) -- [University of St Andrews]
Zimba, Bertha H	Zambian decision making in transportation: the case of the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1987	PhD, Brandeis University

Zimbabwe Specific Railway Books and Articles

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Due, John F	Trends in Rail Transport in Four African Countries Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Sudan	1983	In BEBR Faculty Working Paper No. 937; College of Commerce and Business Administration. Urbana Champaign: University of Illinois
Gao, James Zheng	Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age	1997	Greenwood	Westport, CT
Hamer, ED	Locomotives of Zimbabwe and Botswana	2001	Frank Stenvalls Förlag	Malmö
Jones, David, ed.	The Railway in Zimbabwe 1897-1997	1997	The Pangolin Press for NRZ
Kunaka, C	The railways and the Zimbabwe coal crisis of the late 1980s	1991	Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe, 22, 1-14
National Railways of Zimbabwe Historical Committee	Zimbabwe National Railways Museum	1986	N.R.Z. Historical Committee	Mambo Press, Gweru
Phimister, Ian R	Towards a history of Zimbabwe's railways	1981	Zimbabwean History, 12, 71-99
Turton, Brian J	Railways and the national economy of Zimbabwe: some recent developments	1988	Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe, 19, 47-58
Zimbabwe Rhodesia Railways	Zimbabwe Rhodesia Railways	1979-80	Publicity Office, Zimbabwe Rhodesia Railways	Bulawayo

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