The importance of this railway cannot be over emphasised.The completion of the railway in 1892 as well as its various subsiduary mining branches and a network of telepherique lines in the later years was the key which opened up the main tin producing districts of Oruro, La Paz, Potosi and Chorolque.
The gateway for the railway was Antofagusta in northern Chile.
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