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It is of metre gauge, was begun in 1887 and is some 300 m. long. The railway had created a record in being the most expensive built in tropical Africa £8942 per mile. A railway from Lobito Bay, 25 m.N. of Benguella, begun in 1904, runs towards the Congo-Rhodesia frontier. It is intended to serve the Katanga copper mines.
Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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