Strathdonia
11-12-2004, 17:30
OOC: if you actually know either Strathdonia or United Simba then there is good chance you are part of South Saharan Africa or Modern World and as such youa re free to psot, if you aren't part either group or don't have the foggiest idea about Strathdonia or United Simba then please refrain from posting the usual nonsense.
IC:
With the Strathdonian economy finally reachign a point that it was finally capable of producing enough material to make exports possible the Strathdonian Government foudn themselves with a major problem: Transport.
The only way of getting produce out of the country in any significant quantity was by air, which while perfectly acceptable and cost effective enough for high quality fruit and agricultural produce was simply not an option for the newly revived manufacturing and alcoholic beverige sectors. In short it was clear Strathdonia needed a link to the sea. but how to gain such a link? To the north and west the borders with Lusaka were effectively closed thus only two options remained: a link to Al Khals, already a fairly major customer for what little luxury items were exported, but any major link via Al Khals woudl involve crossing Lake Nyasa, not the easiet of acheivements unless one were to rely on a fleet of ferries. the other option was a rail link to one of the ports in Mozambique, again an expensive option but with the arrival of the new rahter mroe freindly govenrment in the newly christened United Simba this quickly became the favoured option.
After many months of high level negotation (and according to some tabloids the exchange of certain sums and money and fleet of luxury configured Land rovers) a final plan and agreement was reached between the governments of Strathdonia and United Simba for a high capacity rail link that would stretch from the Strathdonian capitol of Lilongwe in the north to the Simbian capitol of Maputo and provide links between major industrial cities and ports such as Blantyre, Beira, Inhambane and Quelimane. This new rail link is to be known as the Livingston Line (well within Strathdonia anyway).
It was agreed that costs for the cosntruction of the railway would split evenly betwwen the 2 nations with Strathdonia agreeing to finance the upgrading of facilites at the port in Quelimane.
For the foreseeable future traffic will consit of locally produced heavy good trains but the infrastructure is being designed to hopefully handle upgrading to more modern Eurostar level trains.
Map of the rail link(blue line=route(s)):
http://www.meatballs.terminator.org.uk/crookfur/images/railmap.jpg
OOC:
well what do you know a none war related RP from Strathdonia?
Al Khals: if an when your insurgent issue resolves itself the nyasa bridge might still be on the table was woudl a northern branch line from Quelimane.
TBF/france (Elkazor): bids on modern trains might be saught in the not too distant future.
IC:
With the Strathdonian economy finally reachign a point that it was finally capable of producing enough material to make exports possible the Strathdonian Government foudn themselves with a major problem: Transport.
The only way of getting produce out of the country in any significant quantity was by air, which while perfectly acceptable and cost effective enough for high quality fruit and agricultural produce was simply not an option for the newly revived manufacturing and alcoholic beverige sectors. In short it was clear Strathdonia needed a link to the sea. but how to gain such a link? To the north and west the borders with Lusaka were effectively closed thus only two options remained: a link to Al Khals, already a fairly major customer for what little luxury items were exported, but any major link via Al Khals woudl involve crossing Lake Nyasa, not the easiet of acheivements unless one were to rely on a fleet of ferries. the other option was a rail link to one of the ports in Mozambique, again an expensive option but with the arrival of the new rahter mroe freindly govenrment in the newly christened United Simba this quickly became the favoured option.
After many months of high level negotation (and according to some tabloids the exchange of certain sums and money and fleet of luxury configured Land rovers) a final plan and agreement was reached between the governments of Strathdonia and United Simba for a high capacity rail link that would stretch from the Strathdonian capitol of Lilongwe in the north to the Simbian capitol of Maputo and provide links between major industrial cities and ports such as Blantyre, Beira, Inhambane and Quelimane. This new rail link is to be known as the Livingston Line (well within Strathdonia anyway).
It was agreed that costs for the cosntruction of the railway would split evenly betwwen the 2 nations with Strathdonia agreeing to finance the upgrading of facilites at the port in Quelimane.
For the foreseeable future traffic will consit of locally produced heavy good trains but the infrastructure is being designed to hopefully handle upgrading to more modern Eurostar level trains.
Map of the rail link(blue line=route(s)):
http://www.meatballs.terminator.org.uk/crookfur/images/railmap.jpg
OOC:
well what do you know a none war related RP from Strathdonia?
Al Khals: if an when your insurgent issue resolves itself the nyasa bridge might still be on the table was woudl a northern branch line from Quelimane.
TBF/france (Elkazor): bids on modern trains might be saught in the not too distant future.