Thomson Junction
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Thomson Junction is a railway marshalling yard about four miles northwest of Hwange (formerly called Wankie), in the Zimbabwe coal fields area. Thomson Junction is named after A. R. Thomson Esq., General Manager of Wankie Colliery for many years.
Trains coming from the south and destined for Victoria Falls and further north into Zambia, and trains coming from the north going south to Bulawayo and onwards, are marshalled for their onward journeys at Thomson Junction marshalling yard.
In 2018, the yard saw a series of derailments. In November, a heavy goods train derailed at the yard, two weeks after a passenger train derailed blocking the line for two days.[1][2]
Reference list
[edit]- ↑ Mabuza, Sipho (2018-11-19). "Goods train derails near Hwange, third train accident in a week". Zimbabwe News Now. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
- ↑ "NRZ goods train derails in Hwange". herald. 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
External links
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