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    From Ulf Kutzner@21:1/5 to bras...@despammed.com on Mon Mar 15 03:29:40 2021
    bras...@despammed.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2004 um 17:04:27 UTC+1:
    In article <403C92E6...@mail.zdv.uni-mainz.de>, Ulf Kutzner <kutz...@mail.zdv.uni-mainz.de> wrote:
    I also heard about a rail ferry in Africa.
    Possibly that is the Tanzania service operating on Lake Victoria. I've
    heard of it, but the last mention I find in my railroad book collection is
    in 1979. When I was in Uganda this past July, I found that there were
    several trains a day in the Kampala area, but it appeared that a lot of
    stuff was containerized. I'm therefore wondering if the ferry service no longer moves actual freight cars, but instead moves containers only.

    Still mentioned here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Tanzania#Railway_links_with_adjacent_countries

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  • From Ulf Kutzner@21:1/5 to Roderick Smith on Mon Mar 15 03:59:14 2021
    Roderick Smith schrieb am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2004 um 14:25:21 UTC+1:
    There is one over Bosphorus in Istanbul, and a new one in China to Hainan.

    For tha latter, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong%E2%80%93Hainan_railway

    Regards, ULF

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  • From Ulf Kutzner@21:1/5 to Roderick Smith on Thu Mar 18 00:50:08 2021
    Roderick Smith schrieb am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2004 um 14:25:21 UTC+1:
    There is one over Bosphorus in Istanbul, and a new one in China to Hainan.

    They added one more (passengers use it as a normal ferry)
    through the Bohai Sea in 2007:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohai_Train_Ferry

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  • From Ulf Kutzner@21:1/5 to Roderick Smith on Tue Apr 4 07:19:19 2023
    Roderick Smith schrieb am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2004 um 14:25:21 UTC+1:

    There is one over Bosphorus in Istanbul, and a new one in China to Hainan.

    Does the latter still carry passengers in passenger railcars?
    Photo taken in 2010: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B2%A4%E6%B5%B7%E9%93%81%E8%B7%AF#/media/File:Qiongzhou_Strait_Train_Ferry.jpg

    Regards, ULF

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