This building has now become home to the railway workshop.
We crossed the tracks and walked through the railway workshops where they were working on a train.
At the gates to the railway workshops there was a double guard of police and military personnel.
This led to a development of metalworking industries, among others the central railway workshops which are still located in the town today.
There was severe damage to railway workshops and rolling stock.
By then Huambo had become the site of the most important railway workshop in Africa.
When the locomotive reached the railway workshops it was found to have suffered little damage.
In 1964, following a reorganisation of railway workshops, the works closed and was demolished.
Industrial lines and railway workshops generally procured the engines of the same design.
C3045 (now preserved) was built by the railway workshops as a prototype, but became the very last to enter traffic in 1923.