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The Maseru branch line is a 26-kilometre (16 mi) railway line that connects Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, to the railway network of South Africa. Overview [ edit ] It branches from the Bloemfontein – Bethlehem line at Marseilles , Free State , and runs in a south-easterly direction for 24 kilometres (15 mi) to the Caledon River .
Rail transport in Lesotho. Maseru station. Diesel engine with goods wagon of Lesotho Flour Mills at Maseru station. The nation of Lesotho has a single railway station, located in the capital city Maseru. It is the terminus of the Maseru branch line, which connects to the railway network of South Africa.
Rail freight infrastructure in Lesotho included a container handling facility and a bulk grain handling facility in the Maseru industrial sites. These facilities were owned by the government and leased to the South African rail company, Spoornet, which was the railway's operator. See also. Trains portal; History of rail transport
Air transport. There are a total of 28 airports in Lesotho, of which 3 have paved runways. [2] The only international airport is the Moshoeshoe I International Airport in Mazenod, a short distance southeast from Maseru. The main runway of the Moshoeshoe Airport is the only one with a runway longer than 1,523 meters; it measures at 3,200 meters.
Maseru was founded by the British as a small police camp in 1869, following the conclusion of the Free State–Basotho Wars when Basutoland became a British protectorate. [3] [4] [5] Maseru is located at the edge of the "conquered territories" relinquished to the Orange Free State (now the Free State province of South Africa) as part of the peace terms.
The railway area was converted to a cycleway in 1986. Originally one lane of traffic and the railway shared the area within the truss spans, but a single-lane deck was later attached to either outer side of the trusses to separate road and rail traffic. Echuca–Moama, opened in 1879, road only since adjacent rail-only bridge opened in 1989.
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South Africa : 11 killed, 17+ wounded [1] [3] 134 [1] The South African intervention in Lesotho, codenamed Operation Boleas, was a military invasion launched by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and led by South Africa through its South African National Defence Force into Lesotho to quell unrest after the 1998 elections.