| APPENDIX 1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN NAMIBIA: 1899 TO 1915
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| No. | Connections
|
Year |Type| Post |Railway|Military|Private|
| |
| | | km |
km | km | km |
|-----|---------------------------|--------|----|------|-------|--------|-------|
| 1. | Windhoek - Swakopmund |1901/06 | SD | 11,73| 381,66|
| |
| 2. | Windhoek - Swakopmund |1908/09 | SD | 11,73| 381,66|
| |
| 3. | Windhoek - Gobabis |1905
|SpE |252,91| |
| |
| 4. | Windhoek - Keetmanshoop |1905/06 |SpE | 8,13 |
| 488,00 | |
| 5. | Windhoek - Keetmanshoop |1911/12 | SE |495,13|
|
| |
| 6. | Windhoek - Claratal |1911/13 |SpE |
31,51| 0,50 | |
|
| 7. | Okahandja - Gross Barmen |1907 |SpE | 25,50|
|
| |
| 8. | Okahandja - Ombirisu |1911/12 |SpE |103,78|
|
| |
| 9. | Karibib - Swakopmund |1901 |
M | | |
| |
| 10. | Karibib - Swakopmund |1901 |SpE |
7,40 | 194,92| |
|
| 11. | Swakopmund - Tsumeb |1901/06 | SD | 9,78 |
593,60| | |
| 12. | Karibib - Tsumeb |1911/12 |
SD |404,26| |
| |
| 13. | Tsumeb - Tsumeb Station |1908 |SpE | 1,61 |
|
| |
| 14. | Otavi - Grootfontein |1908/09 | SD | 0,10 | 84,50 |
| |
| | (double connection) |
| |
| |
| |
| 15. | Otjiwarongo - Outjo |1910 |
SD | 78,00| |
| |
| 16. | Otjiwarongo - Otjozondjupa|1911 |SpE | 81,00|
|
| |
| 17. | Windhoek - Karibib |1911/13 |SpE | 7,78
| |
| |
| 18. | Geitsabis - Maltahöhe |1911/13 |SpE | 71,45|
| |
|
| 19. | Itsawisis - Berseba |1911/13 |SpE |
| | 47,00|
| |
| 20. | Gibeon - Gochas - Aroab |1911/13 | * |
| 45,00 | 256,00 | |
| 21. | Keetmanshoop - Lüderitz |1907/08 | SD | 1,60 |
364,50| | |
| 22. | Keetmanshoop - Lüderitz |1910 | SD | 1,60 |
364,50| | |
| 23. | Brackwasser - Chamis |1908 |SpE |
31,50| | 60,00
| |
| 24. | Keetmanshoop - Stolzenfels|1909/10 |SpE | |
| 539,57 | |
| | via: Koës, Hasuur, Ukamas |
| | |
| | |
| 25. | Keetmanshoop - Warmbad |1906/07 |SpE |259,97|
|
| |
| 26. | Keetmanshoop - Cape Town |1907/12 | SE | 67,71|
179,50| | |
| 27. | Lüderitz - Angra Juntas |1910/14 |SpE |130,78|
|
| |
| 28. | Windhoek - Neu Heusis |1910/11 |SpE | 54,95|
|
| |
| 29. | Orange Crossing: Ramansdr.|1911 |SpE | 1,50|
|
| |
| 30. | Lüderitz - Kolmanskop |1911 | SD |
|
| | |
| 31. | Swakopmund: Wireless-PostO|1912 | M | 1,61 |
|
| |
| 32. | Karibib - Usakos (double) |1912/13 |SpD | 41,23|
|
| |
| 33. | Lüderitz: Wireless-PostOff|1912 | M | 1,44 |
|
| |
| 34. | Windhoek - Hatsamas |1913
|SpE | 89,33| |
| |
| 35. | Okamaja - Otjozondjupa |1915 |SpE |
| | 109,80
| |
| 36. | Rössing - Goanikontes |1914 |SpE |
| | 18,00
| |
| 37. | Swakopmund: Cableh.-PostOf|1899/07 | R | 0,55 |
|
| |
| 38. | Swakopmund: Cableh.-PostOf|1913 | R | 0,55 |
|
| |
| 39. | Outjo - Okaukuejo |1914
|SpE | | |
114,50 | |
| 40. | Outjo - Otjitambi |1915
|SpE | | |
186,29 | |
| 41. | Tsumeb - Grootfontein |1915 | SE |
| | 80,00
| |
| 42. | Tsumeb - Namutoni |1915
|SpE | |
| 89,00 | 18,00 |
| 43. | Windhoek: Wireless-PostOff|1914 | M | 1,90 |
|
| |
| 44. | Karasburg - Ukamas |1915
|SpE |
| | 100,00 | |
| 45. | Karasburg - Uhabis |1915
|SpE |
| | 116,00 | |
| 46. | Heusis - Baumgartsbrunn |1910 |SpE |
|
| | 9,00 |
| 47. | Koanus: local connections |1913 |SpE |
|
| | 0,80 |
| 48. | Neineis: local connections|1913 |SpE |
|
| | 1,00 |
| 49. | Khan Mine - Arandis |1912
|SpE |
| | | 10,60
|
| 50. | Lüderitz - Elisabeth Bay |1910/12 |SpE | |
| | 41,10 |
| 51. | Pomona - Jammerbucht |1914 |SpE |
|
| | 11,28 |
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SOURCE: Compiled and re-analysed by Dr. Klaus Dierks,
based on South African
Government Printing Works, Pretoria, 1914 and hand-written Report:
Compilation of the Telegraph Lines and Connections, Windhoek, 1915
NOTA: M = Morseworking;
R = Recorder;
SD = Simultaneous switching in a double connection;
SE = Simultaneous switching in a single connection;
SpE = Single connection for telephone working;
SpD = Double connection for telephone working;
* = partly SpE (first section) and further to
Gochas/Aroab: SE
© Dr. Klaus Dierks 2000 |
