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Aboroba Pictures

Arboroba
(also known as Arbaruba and Arbaroeba)

An anonymous donor has a picture of what we believe to be Arbaroba in April of 2000.

Photo courtesy Jerry Pry.
This location can be seen on the detailed map of this area in Rob Dickinson's site near kilometer 105.


This is the way that the Arbaroba station looked in November, 1961.

The red tiled roof and 'lace work' roof trim was common to all of the stations I saw.  I do not know if this was used on the Asmara to Agordat line or not.  This building has obvious Mediterranean roots.  It was likely built in a time frame which coincided with the Victorian Era in English speaking areas.  Any knowledge of this architecture is welcomed.

Notice the Ethiopic on the left and Arabic on the right.  Eritrea was, and still is, a country with three methods of writing languages: 1) Ethiopic, which includes Eritrea's Tigranya and Ethiopia's Amharic as well as several other Eritrean/Ethiopian languages;  2) Arabic; and 3) Roman.  The latter is a remnant of the heritage as a former Italian colony.


copyright 1975, GRAF
The same writing was present during the colonial era as shown in the above picture. From the smoke hanging in the air and the direction of the smoke immediatly above the locomotive, one can safely say that this train is departing and heading for Asmara.  According to the line profile in Short Description of the line, the small building beyond the pole is "P. way inspector."  I assume 'P." is the abbreviation for something in Italian.



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