Rehoboth railway station
railway station in Namibia
Rehoboth railway station is a railway station serving the town of Rehoboth in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway, and is located along the Windhoek to Upington line.
The railway station is situated approximately 12 kilometers east of the town of Rehoboth. When the railway line was constructed in 1910, cost considerations led to the decision not to extend the line directly into the town. Following protests by local authorities in 1912, the government constructed a 60-centimeter narrow-gauge tramway to link the station with the town center. The siding, whose operations began on 15 January 1913, was rented and operated by a Georg Bräuer but was abandoned in the early 1950s.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Namibia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7309845. Authority coordinates are -23.317, 17.083. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1912 and 1913.
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