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The Lawa Railway (Dutch: Lawaspoorweg or later Landsspoorweg) was a 173-kilometre-long (107+1⁄2mi) 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.
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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