64 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS (No.98 -(6) The Great Lakes Railway (Chemin de fer du Congo supérieur aux Grands Lacs) : ( i) Stanleyville -Ponthierville section , sometimes called the Falls Railway, completed in 1910, a single line, one metre gauge , 78 miles in length, linking the middle Congo with its upper reaches above the Stanley Falls. Its gradients and curves are fairly easy. For most of its length it traverses forest, cross ing several deep river-beds. Three trains a week run each way. It is on the left bank of the river.

(ii) Kindu -Kongolo section, sometimes called the Manyema Railway, a single line, one metre gauge, 218 miles in length , passing through hilly country and linking the Ponthierville - Kindu reach with the upper navigable reaches of the river above Kongolo. It is also on the left bank of the river.

( iii) Kabalo – Kalemi section, from Kabalo , 40 miles above Kongolo, to Kalemi, a little south of the township of Albertville 1 on Lake Tanganyika. This line was only completed after the outbreak of war. Its first section runs through a bad tsetse-fly area . It is a single line, one metre gauge, 168 miles in length, connecting the Cape -Congo rail and steamboat system with Tanganyika and the Cape -Cairo route. It has also opened, between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, à route of through communication via the Congo river, Lake Tanganyika, and the railway from Kigoma to Dar esSalaam. The latter line is 780 miles long, and, as this distance is traversed in forty-eight hours, Lake Tanganyika can now be reached in twenty days from Naples.

(c) The Katanga Railway (Chemin de fer du Katanga ), from Sakania on the Rhodesian frontier, via Elisabeth 1 It is understood that steps are being taken to transfer the name and township of Albertville to Kalemi , so that township, lake port, and railway terminus shall coincide.