Kafue Railway Bridge
The Kafue Railway Bridge was built to carry the Livingstone to Lusaka railway line in what is now Zambia over the Kafue River in 1906. It is a steel girder truss bridge of 13 spans each of  supported on concrete piers. It was built for Mashonaland Railways, later merged into Rhodesian Railways which operated the line from 1927 until succeeded in Zambia by Zambia Railways in 1966. With a length of  the Kafue Railway Bridge was the longest bridge on the Rhodesian Railways network. It includes nearly  of embankments raised about  where the line crosses the river's wider rainy season channel, and a lower embankment about  long where it crosses the river's the shallower floodplain to the south-west of the bridge. The town of Kafue is at the bridge's northern end and the Kafue Bridge on the T2 road is  downstream. See also
History of Zambia

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Bridges in Zambia
Bridges completed in 1906
Railway bridges in Zambia
1906 establishments in the British Empire