The first town in the east of the Namib Desert on the main B2 road from
Swakopmund, Usakos lies on the southern bank of
the Khan River, nestled in the last hills before the Namib, at the edge of a
vast expanse of gravel plains. The town originally developed around the
railway workshops which were built to service the narrow-gauge Otavi line,
completed in 1906. Unit 1960, the town prospered. Nowadays the town's main role is one of service centre to vehicles
plying their way to and from Swakopmund / Walvis Bay and Windhoek. As a reminder of the town's heyday, Locomotive
No. 40 stands in
front of the railway station, one of three Henschel steam trains built in
Germany for her colony's narrow-gauge railway.
Phone code: 064. Police: 10111.
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