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12-610: Kamina is known as an important railway node; three lines of the DRC railways run from Kamina toward the north, west, and south-east. The main railway line, the 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 airports, one civil ( Kamina Airport ) and one military ( Kamina Base Airport ). It lies along National Road 1 (N1) and Regional Road 630 (R630). The Belgian Armed Forces established

24-800: A large military base in Kamina after the Second World War . The large base complex consisted of Base 1, an air base used for flying training, and Base 2, a paratroop training facility. From September 1953 to 1960, the Advanced Pilots' School of the Belgian Air Force operated some 60 North American Harvards from the base. When the Congo gained independence in June 1960, Belgium initially retained control of Kamina, under agreement with

36-520: A track gauge of 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ) were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways . The first intercity passenger railway to use 3 ft 6 in was constructed in Norway by Carl Abraham Pihl . From the mid-nineteenth century, the 3 ft 6 in gauge became widespread in the British Empire . In Africa it became known as the Cape gauge as it was adopted as

48-865: Is helping to pay for the section's repair. Charities often use the railway to distribute food and other supplies. Despite foreign support, SNCC was again on the brink of collapse in 2010; to prevent this, in June 2010 the World Bank gave a 255 million US dollar grant. The Matadi-Kinshasa Railway is operated by ONATRA , under an agreement with the CNC. 3,641 kilometres (of which 858 kilometres electrified) in Katanga , Kasaï-Occidental , Kasaï-Oriental and Maniema . Track gauge 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in )  : Track gauge 1,000 mm ( 3 ft  3 + 3 ⁄ 8  in ) metre gauge : 3 ft 6 in gauge railways Railways with

60-456: Is the process whereby fighters of the former DRC warring factions are brought together into new combined units. In 2019, the Governor of Haut-Lomami inaugurated the "Stade Joseph Kabila Kabange", a modern sports arena. The stadium was started in 2008, with 2 Million US dollars of funding from Katanga Province . After work on the stadium halted for nearly a decade, the Governor announced that

72-628: Is used to distinguish it from other narrow gauges. In Japan the 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) gauge, along with other narrow gauges, is referred to as kyōki ( 狭軌 ) , which directly translates as narrow gauge , to differentiate it from the Shinkansen lines. It is defined in metric units. It is commonly referred to as 三六軌間 ( 36 gauge ) , which derives from the 3 ft 6 in. Similar, but incompatible without wheelset adjustment, rail gauges in respect of aspects such as cost of construction, practical minimum radius curves and

84-696: The Democratic Republic of the Congo . The railway took over the assets of the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Zaïrois (SNCZ; "National Railway Company of Zaire "). Due to the civil war , the railway was not functioning from 1998 until June 29, 2004. During the war, 500 km of railway in the provinces of Maniema and Katanga were destroyed. A million dollar grant from the United States Agency for International Development 's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

96-722: The 1960s, the gauge was referred to in official South African Railways publications as 1,065 mm ( 3 ft  5 + 15 ⁄ 16  in ) instead of 1067 mm. In Sweden, the gauge was nicknamed Blekinge gauge , as most of the railways in the province of Blekinge had this gauge. Colonial Gauge was used in New Zealand. In Australia, this gauge is typically referred to as narrow gauge in comparison to 4 ft  8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge or 5 ft 3 in ( 1,600 mm ) broad gauge. In some instances, simply 3 foot 6 inch — or in rarer cases medium gauge —

108-842: The Congolese government, but in October 1960 control of the base was taken over by the United Nations. The base was never under Katangese control, although Katangese troops occupied the nearby town of Kaminaville. In early 1964, the UN handed over Kamina to the Congolese Armed Forces . It is now a 'brassage' centre for the slowly forming Army of the Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Brassage

120-413: The stadium was completed as a gift from then-President Joseph Kabila to the population of Haut-Lomami . This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Congo Railway The Société Nationale des chemins de fer du Congo ( SNCC ; "National Railway Company of the Congo") is the national railway company for the inland railways of

132-702: The standard gauge for the Cape Government Railways in 1873, although it had already been established in Australia and New Zealand before that. It was adopted as a standard in New Zealand , South Africa , Indonesia , Japan , the Philippines , Taiwan , and Queensland (which has the second largest narrow gauge network in the world) in Australia. There are approximately 112,000 kilometres (70,000 mi) of 1,067 mm gauge track in

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144-546: The world, which are classified as narrow-gauge railways . This gauge is sometimes called Cape gauge , named after the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa, which adopted it in 1873. "Cape gauge" was used in several English-speaking countries. The equivalent of Cape gauge is used in other languages, such as the Dutch kaapspoor , German Kapspur , Norwegian kappspor and French voie cape . After metrication in

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