Swakopmund railway station

[1] Swakopmund was the starting point of the first state railway line in German South West Africa.

The railway station was built in 1901, as a terminal on the Imperial Germany's colonial Kaiserliche Eisenbahn line connecting Swakopmund with the capital Windhoek.

[3] In 1914 the extension to Walvis Bay was completed, with a railtrack very close to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1980 this extension was replaced by an alternative route behind the dunes that allowed for higher axle load.

Bahnhof of the private mining company Otavi Minen und Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, today housing a museum.