America takes on China to revive British-built railway in Angola.

[BachelorBoy]

https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/angola-africa-china-us-railroad-f0e23523?st=la3222fjijoea1q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

The Benguela railway had some fantastic Garratts

 

[EddieB]

Talking of Angola, there's a good article in the current (February 2024)  issue of the German magazine "Lok Report".  For the intrepid, the LCGB are planning to run a tour to Angola later in the year, visiting all three lines (I believe places are still available).

 

The first train along the Lobito Corridor was reported on the Lok Report website earlier this month (Google translate is your friend): https://www.lok-report.de/news/uebersee/item/46636-angola-demokratische-republik-kongo-erste-lieferung-von-kupferkonzentrat-ueber-den-lobito-corridor.html

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China is retrenching fast on railway projects in Africa.

 

Hence why the HSTs went to Nigeria.

 

isnt Kenya having issues with Chinese financing of rolling stock to ?

 

I suspect China is learning what the Americans learnt in the 70’s and what we learned earlier that many parts of Africa arent economically developed enough to support the latest high tech. There are certainly more power houses in Africa now then there was, but not everywhere and at very different levels.