Old train on the railway line from Fianarantsoa to Manakara, Madagascar, Southeast Africa. Vintage train traveling through jungle, Fianarantsoa-Côte
Old train on the railway line from Fianarantsoa to Manakara, Madagascar, Southeast Africa. Vintage train traveling through jungle, Fianarantsoa-Côte Est Railway or FCE, Sahambavy. The FCE railway was built by the French colonial administration between 1926 and 1936 to open up the east coast and facilitate the export of agricultural products from this fertile region. The tracks were imported from Germany, the carriages from Switzerland. In its heyday the railway had two locomotives, with five services a week carrying 150,00 passengers and 20,000 tonnes of freight a year. Unfortunately, with Madagascar bumping from one political and economic crisis to the next since the 1960s, little money has been invested in the railway’s upkeep, which explains the record-breaking delays and the serial derailings and breakdowns. There is now one locomotive only and just two passenger services a week (and one freight only), which results in overcrowding and overloading.
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Photo credit: © Sergi Reboredo / Alamy / Afripics
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