Shire Highlands Railway
From Graces Guide
in Nyasaland (now Malawi)
The Shire Highlands Railway Company Ltd was a private railway company in colonial Nyasaland, incorporated in 1895 with the intention of constructing a railway from Blantyre (in modern-day Malawi) to the effective head of navigation of the Shire River. After problems with routing and finance, a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) South African gauge railway was constructed between 1903 and 1907, and extended in 1908 to a Nsanje, a distance of 113 miles (182 km) as water levels in the Shire River fell.
Sir Charles Metcalfe was joint consulting engineer for the construction of the line.
1909 Description of lifting bridge over the Shire River.[1]
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