Lawa Railway

Lawa Railway
Diesel railcar in the former station of Onverwacht
Map of the line
from Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië [nl],
published between 1914 and 1917
Technical
Line lengthOriginally 173 km (107+1⁄2 mi)
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Route map

Legend
km
 Station
0.00
 Paramaribo (Vaillantsplein)
Dominee Creek
2.50
 Beekhuizen
4.06
 Saron
5.80
 Ephraimszegen
7.55
 Frederikshoop
9.07
 Hanna'slust
10.50
 Welgedacht
11.47
 Monplaisir-weg
12.31
 Commissaris-weg
13.14
 Helena Christina
13.94
 Bergershoop
15.15
 Braamshoop
16.04
 Houttuin-weg
16.85
 Lelydorp
17.67
 Schotel-weg
18.60
 Java-weg
19.40
 Van Hattem-tracé
20.10
 Libanon-weg
20.10
 Palisaden-weg
21.50
 Copie-weg
22.30
 Bijlhout-weg
23.25
 Groenhart-weg
24.00
 Rijsdijk-weg
26.39
 Nyssen-weg
27.00
 Toelseeda-weg
28.10
 Meurs-weg
29.50
 Onverwacht
32.00
 On-demand halt
35.00
 On-demand halt
41.20
 Republiek
44.75
 Zanderij I, airport[1]
52.40
 Berlijn
61.60
 Zanderij II[1]
64.70
 Sectie O
79.10
 Kwakoegron
95.70
 Guyana (gold mine)
99.60
 De Jong-Noord (gold mine)
102.60
 Gros Placer
105.50
 De Jong-Zuid (gold mine)
115.50
 Brownsweg
123.00
 Kamp III
133.00
 Kabelstation-Noord (cable car station)
First cable car; later ferry
134.00
 Kabelstation-Zuid (cable car station)
145.25
 Abontjema
151.80
 Adjama
158.50
 Sikakamp
166.50
 Gégé
173.00
 Dam am Sara Creek

The stations in 1912[2] and in the 1950s[1][3][4][5]

The Lawa Railway (Dutch: Lawaspoorweg or later Landsspoorweg) was a 173-kilometre-long (107+1⁄2 mi) single-track metre gauge railway in Suriname. It was built during the gold rush in the early 20th century, from the harbour town Paramaribo to Dam at the Sara Creek, but it was not extended to the gold fields at the Lawa River, as originally intended.

  1. ^ a b c The Railways of Surinam, 2014 - Suriname Landspoorweg.
  2. ^ De Vraagbaak: Almanak voor Suriname 1913. 1912.
  3. ^ F.J. Ormeling (Hrsg.), Bos/Niermeyer Atlas der gehele aarde, Vol 40, J.B. Wolters, Groningen/Batavia, 1959
  4. ^ F.J. Ormeling (Hrsg.), De Grote Bosatlas, Vol 47, Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1971
  5. ^ Nieuwe Geïllustreerde Lekturama Encyclopedie, Tirion, Amsterdam, 1981