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The station building, declared a national monument in 1972, today serves as a hotel and casino; nowadays trains stop further inland to the east of the original building. There is another former station building in Swakopmund, the
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Swakopmund was the starting point of the first state railway line in
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was completed, with a railtrack very close to the shore of the
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Former station building of Swakopmund, now serving as a hotel.
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Swakopmund Railway Station

‹See Tfd›
German
railway station
Swakopmund
Namibia
TransNamib
German South West Africa
Imperial Germany's
Kaiserliche Eisenbahn
Windhoek
Willi Sander
Swakopmund Lighthouse
Walvis Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Otavi Minen und Eisenbahn Gesellschaft
Rail transport in Namibia
"Swakopmund, Railway Station (ZSZ) information"
Southern Africa
ISBN
978-1-74059-545-2
Historical Dictionary of Namibia
ISBN
978-0-8108-7990-4
Dierks, Klaus
"The Development of the Namibian Railway Network. The Rail History Until the 1990s"
Botswana & Namibia
314
ISBN

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