Abstract: | Alfred Sharpe, Commissioner of British Central Africa from 1897 till 1910, was a proponent of railway development as a way to solve transport difficulties. The article describes the construction of the railway, from Port Herald northward along the west bank of the Shire River, and the difficulties which had to be overcome: the recruitment of labour, the building of a bridge, the path the main line would take and the direction to the Indian Ocean. The Nyasaland Railroad opened on 31st March, 1908. Notes. |