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The Netherlands-South African Railway Company (Nederlandsch-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij) or NZASM was formed on June 21, 1887 in the Transvaal. The license was conditional on the route from Delagoa Bay to Pretoria being complete before the end of 1894. The line opened on November 2, 1894. The line was created in an attempt to break the dependence of the Afrikaners on the British colonies to the south. By building a railway eastwards into Portuguese Mozambique the settlers would have a trade route that did not run through British territory.
After the Second Boer War it was taken over by Central South African Railways.
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