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Jidu La Mabambasi, kwa heshma na taadhima, mtu unapojinasibu humu kuwa ni msomi, mhandisi halafu ukaleta hoja za ukilaza wa chekechea ni kujiabisha tuu, kumbe Jidu ni kilaza hivi!. Kwa kukusaidia tuu, Reli ya Kati sio reli ya kwanza kujengwa Tanzania, reli ya kwanza ni Reli ya Tanga ilianza kujengwa mwaka 1891 kwa feasibility study na Construction of the mwaka 1896 by mwaka 1902 ilifika Korogwe, ikafika Mombo mwaka1904 na kufika Moshi mwaka1912!. Tena tuzizungumzie Zanzibar reli ilijengwa toka mwaka 1880 to 1888!.
Mtu yoyote anayejinasibu kuwa msomi, baada ya kumsikiliza Dr. Rioba kabla ya kuja humu angejiridhisha kwanza apate uhakika ndipo aje humu na sio kukimbilia kumwaga upupu na kujiita msomi kumbe ni msomi kilaza!.
Kwa kukusaidia tuu na hawa vilaza wengine humu wanaokuunga mkono kilaza wewe
1891, the
Eisenbahngesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika (English:
Railway Company for German East Africa) was established, with the goal of building a railway from
Tanga in Tanganyika to the hinterland. For that, and subsequent, main lines in the German colony, the gauge selected was 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
metre gauge. In addition,
light railways were developed for individual Tanganyikan
sisal plantations in
narrower gauges, usually 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) gauge.
The construction of the
Usambara Railway, from Tanga to the hinterland, began in 1893. However, the company building that railway went into
bankruptcy after two years. At that stage, only 40 km (25 mi) of track had been completed, as far as
Korogwe. The
treasury of the colony then took over the project in 1899. Four years later, in 1903, it issued an Order for further construction. Subsequently, there were other attempts to operate the railway on an economically and juristically stable footing.
In 1904, the smaller railways received a boost. Meanwhile, in Germany, the
Sigi-Eisenbahngesellschaft (English:
Sigi Railway Company) was established, with the objective of constructing one of the narrow gauge railways branching off the Usambara Railway, the
Sigi-Bahn,
[1] in 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) gauge. The same year, 1904, the
Ostafrikanische Eisenbahngesellschaft (English:
East African Railway Company) (OAEG) was formed to promote a railway from
Dar es Salaam in the direction of
Lake Tanganyika, the
Zentralbahn (English:
Central Line).
Kigoma was reached on 2 February 1914, on the eve of
World War I.
Dr. Rioba was very right!, kitu kikifanyika miaka 1800, ni 1800s hata kama ni 1899!.
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