The Mulobezi Railway was constructed to carry timber from Mulobezi to Livingstone in the Southern Province of Zambia. The first railway had been built in the country in 1904-5, but it wasn't until the Zambezi Sawmills company was founded in 1916, and they expanded into the north of the country in about 1923, that a branch line to Mulobezi was required. From 1930 to the late 1960s there was a single train each day operating between Mulobezi and Livingston. Today (2008) Zambia Railways operates the line, however they only run one train per week.