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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.
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 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.
New Zealand Railways Corporation (Rail operator 1981 – 1990, land owner 1990 – 2003, Ontrack 2003–2008, railway land owner 2008 – present) New Zealand Rail Limited (Defunct, privatised 1993, renamed Tranz Rail in 1995)
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.
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Major sixteen private railways. Kantō region. Keikyu Corporation 京浜急行電鉄 (京急) Keio Corporation 京王電鉄. Keisei Electric Railway 京成電鉄. Odakyu Electric Railway 小田急電鉄. Sagami Railway (Sotetsu) 相模鉄道 (相鉄) Seibu Railway 西武鉄道. Tobu Railway 東武鉄道.