ABSTRACT
The Railways in Tanganyika Territory consist of the Central Railway from Dar-es-Salaam to Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, and the Tanga Railway from Tanga to Moschi. The construction of the Central Railway was originally commenced in 1905 by a German private company, the Ost Afrikanische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (OAE-G), to whom land and mining concessions were granted. The organization of the Traffic Department is on a district basis; under the Traffic Manager are 3 District Traffic Superintendents, stationed respectively at Morogoro, Tabora and Tanga. The Railway telegraphs and telephones consist of one telegraph line, tied in at about every third or fourth station to take service messages, and a station to station telephone line for train working. During the Military Administration of the Railways stores were obtained through the agency of the War Office. When the Civil Administration took over charge of the Railways, the Indian State Railway Code was adopted as the general model for the system of accounting to be adopted.
