Thomson Junction is a railway marshalling yard about four miles northwest of

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(formerly called Wankie), in the

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coal fields area. Thomson Junction is named after A. R. Thomson Esq., General Manager of Wankie Colliery for many years. Trains coming from the south and destined for

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and further north into

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, and trains coming from the north going south to Bulawayo and onwards, are marshalled for their onward journeys at Thomson Junction marshalling yard.

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Hwange Colliery
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