The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing from southern to northern Africa. It would have been the largest...

variously known as the Cape to Cairo Road, Pan-African Highway, or, in sub-Saharan Africa, the Great North Road. Like the Cape to Cairo Railway, the road was not...

Cape to Cairo may refer to: Cape to Cairo Railway Cape to Cairo Red Line, the 19th century concept of a British-dominated Africa, promoted by Cecil Rhodes...

named after him in 1895. He also devoted much effort to realising his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. Rhodes set up the Rhodes...

from Angola to Mozambique and Germany in possession of much of the East African coast. The original proposal for a Cape to Cairo railway was made in 1874...

important railway line in the country. It also connects to Tenke in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and to the Cape to Cairo Railway (connecting...

which connects it to the cities of Lusaka and Kolwezi. Lubumbashi is the center of the railway lines from Cape to Cairo Railway, which serves as a link...

claims clashed with its aspirations to create a Cape to Cairo Railway, linking its colonies from the south of Africa to those in the north. This seems unlikely...

dream of a Cape to Cairo Railway, railway and telegraph lines were laid across previously barren Rhodesia with great speed, linking South Africa to the Belgian...

Rhodes was a strong believer in the Cape to Cairo railway project, although with German East Africa blocking the route to the north of BSAC territory, he...

Pretoria–Maputo line connects with the Sentrarand railway (Pretoria-Johannesburg Railway Arch) and Cape to Cairo Railway (known in the city as Metrorail Gauteng...

the Railway Mission largely to cater for the children of the employees of the old Cape Government Railways at work on the Cape-to-Cairo railway who were...

by two systems: TAZARA Railway Zambia Railways Limited (sub-systems: Cape to Cairo Railway and Sena railway) Zambia Railways operates a number of rail...

opened in 1904 to accommodate passengers on the newly built National Railways of Zimbabwe railway, part of the planned Cape to Cairo Railway. Later it was...

operating sections of the Cape to Cairo Railway, links the city with Tenke and Lubumbashi to the south and Kabalo and Kindu to the northeast. It has two...

Atlantic Monthly. 90: 184–195. Verner, Samuel Phillips (1899). "The Cape to Cairo Railway". The Conservative Review. 1: 245–254. US patent 1075954A, Samuel...

the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, part of his grand and unfulfilled Cape to Cairo railway scheme, even though he never visited the falls and died before construction...

(the A8 road) and railway to Hwange (109 km away) and Bulawayo (440 km away), both to the south-east. The route is part of the Cairo–Cape Town Highway (Trans-African...

Throughout the late 19th-century there were plans and ambitions for a Cape to Cairo Railway to link British colonies in Africa. The lack of a true "All-Red Route'...

control. This 'red line' (i.e. a proposed railway or road, see Cape to Cairo Railway) through Africa was made famous by the British diamond magnate and...

freight. Variable gauge axles (VGA) Dual gauge track as in Ghana Cape to Cairo Railway Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority North–South...

wish to annex them into the British Empire as part of his personal ambition for a Cape to Cairo Railway—winning the concession would enable him to gain...

Kafue Railway Bridge for a full account. It was opened in 1906 to connect Kafue with Mazabuka and was originally meant to be part of the Cape to Cairo Railway...

new adventures, Burnham took his family to southern Africa in 1893, seeing Cecil Rhodes's Cape to Cairo Railway project as the next undeveloped frontier...

British expansion in Southern Africa, to urge a "Cape to Cairo" railway linking the strategically important Suez Canal to the mineral-rich south of the continent...

made the journey impossible. In recent years however, the Cape to Cairo and Cairo to Cape Town route has again become possible and increasingly popular...

was the town of Lado. British desire for a Cape to Cairo railway led them to negotiate with the Belgians to exchange the area that became the Lado Enclave...

Beitbridge-Bulawayo railway. In Bulawayo, the Beira–Bulawayo line connects with the Cape to Cairo Railway. The main railway stations of the Beira–Bulawayo railway are:...

of the Cape to Cairo Railway. The railway operator Zambia Railways maintains a railway station in Ndola, with passenger and freight services to the city...

required to connect to the Cape to Cairo Railway. Zambia, Botswana to construct railway across Zambezi Botswana, Zambia to construct railway across Zambezi...