Shire Highlands Railway
From Graces Guide
in Nyasaland
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.
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