Narrowgauge railway
A special gauge railcar was built for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company with a design speed of 137 km/h. OMEG built a narrow gauge railway extending 567 km from Swakopmund on the Atlantic coast to the mines of Tsumeb.
A special gauge railcar was built for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company with a design speed of 137 km/h. OMEG built a narrow gauge railway extending 567 km from Swakopmund on the Atlantic coast to the mines of Tsumeb.
The Otavi Mining and Railway Company (Otavi Minen und EisenbnGesellschaft or OMEG) was a railway and mining company in German South West Africa (today''s Namibia). New!!: Narrowgauge railway and Otavi Mining and Railway Company #183; See more
L''origine #232; la South West Africa Company, fondata a Londra nel 1892 da investitori tedeschi e inglesi e alla quale furono assegnate le concessioni. Nel 1900 fu fondata la Otavi Mining and Railway Company per sviluppare i giacimenti di rame e piombo vicino a Tsumeb nell''Otavi Bergland nell''Africa sudoccidentale tedesca.
In 1912, the German administration in German South West Africa acquired three Class Hd tender locomotives with a 282 Mikado type wheel arrangement, for lease to the Otavi Mining and Railway Company to use on the line from Swakopmund to Karibib. When these locomotives were taken onto the roster of the South African Railways after the First World War, they retained their German
The railway was built to carry copper ore to Swakopmund. The German colonial company which ran the mine and built the railway was the Otavi Minenund EisenbnGesellschaft (OMEG); there are some excellent photographs of the railway on show in the OMEG museum house in Swakopmund.
In 1931, three narrowgauge Class NG15 locomotives with a 282 Mikado type wheel arrangement, similar in design to the existing Class Hd and Class NG5 locomotives, were acquired by the South African Railways for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in South West Africa. More were purchased for the Otavi Railway and the Tsumeb Copper Corporation during the subsequent years, eventually bringing
The Otavi Mining and Railway Company (Otavi Minen und EisenbnGesellschaft or OMEG) was a railway and mining company in German South West Africa (today''s Namibia). It was founded on 6 April 1900 in Berlin with the DiscontoGesellschaft and the South West Africa Company as
The Otavi Mining and Railway Company in SouthWest Africa (now Namibia) were transferred to the 2 ft gauge railways in South Africa and currently some surviving locomotives reside in Wales on the 1 ft 11 1 2 in (597 mm) gauge Welsh Highland Railway and the 1 ft 11 3 4 in (603 mm) gauge Brecon Mountain Railway. Installations
Nevertheless, in 1903 OMEG undertook to build a railway from Swakopmund to Tsumeb for ore transport, and the link was completed in August 1906. Also in 1906, the first new mineral from Tsumeb otavite, cadmium carbonate was discovered and named for the Otavi Mountainland (Schneider, 1906). Ore outcrop at Tsumeb Mine, 1907.
Otavi Mining and Railway Company (Otavi Minen und EisenbnGesellschaft or OMEG) built the longest 60centimeter gauge railway in the world extending 567 kilometers from Swakopmund on the...
A special gauge railcar was built for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company with a design speed of 137 km/h. OMEG built a narrow gauge railway extending 567 km from Swakopmund on the Atlantic coast to the mines of Tsumeb. Tsumeb Herero and Namaqua genocide Narrowgauge railway South West African Class Hd South West Africa Company.
The Otavi Mining and Railway Company (Otavi Minen und EisenbnGesellschaft or OMEG) was a railway and mining company in German SouthWest Africa (today''s Namibia). It was founded on 6 April 1900 in Berlin with the DiscontoGesellschaft and the South West Africa Company as major... Read more
The Otavi Mining and Railway Company ( Otavi Minen und EisenbnGesellschaft or OMEG) was a railway and mining company in German SouthWest Africa (today''s Namibia ). It was founded on 6 April 1900 in Berlin with the DiscontoGesellschaft and the South West Africa Company as
quot;Petrusquot; is a young man who died of pneumonia on April 23, 1906 while working for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company by building the OMEG Railway in Namibia. He is buried at the Old Rhenish Cemetery in Omaruru in Plot 280. Few details are available in his case. Sources quot;Petrusquot; at Find a Grave
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The English German Otavi Mine and Railway Company started with the industrial mining in 1900. Not only copper was found, but also lead, zinc and more than 200 other minerals, of which some only occurred here. The first batch of ore was transported by oxwagon to Swakopmund at the end of 1900, from where it was then shipped to Europe.
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The Tsumeb mine in German South West Africa, which was operated from 1907 to 1996. It belonged to the Otavi Mining and Railway Company. (OMEG)
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Construction of the railway had been commissioned by the Otavi Mining and Railway Company (OMEG) to allow the products of the mines to be carried to the ships at Swakopmund. The mines and the railway thrived during the colonial period with a growing traffic of farm produce and passengers to complement the metals and ores.
In 1903 OMEG started construction on the longest 600 mm gauge railway on earth, which extended 567 kilometres (352 mi) from Swakopmund to the mines surrounding Otavi and Tsumeb, which it reached 3...