Railway stations in Mozambique
Railway stations in Mozambique include:
Towns served by railways
(The lines do not all connect, or connect indirectly)
Northern system
(northernmost) (CDN) (from west to east)
- Nayuchi -
Malawi - border town. - Malema - way station
- Ribaue
- Nampula - workshops
- Metocheria
- Gelo
- Monapo - junction
- Nachicuva River
- Nacala - deep water port
- Monapo - junction
- Lumbo - port
- Cuamba - junction to Lichinga
- Lichinga - railhead
- (location unknown)
- Namialo concrete sleeper plant.[1]
(isolated line)
- Matiban
Zambezi system
(gauge unknown) - line sabotaged during civil war, and later pulled up for scrap.[2]
- Quelimane - river port
- Nicoadala
- Namacurra
- Naciaia
- Mocuba - terminus (also called Vila de Mocuba)
(possible standard gauge)
Central system
The railway to Zimbabwe was originally 610 mm (2 ft) in 1890, but was converted to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) in 1900.[5]
( Zambezi valley )
- Beira - port
- Dondo - junction - cement works
- Muanza - limestone
- Inhaminga
- Inhamitanga - junction
- Caia - junction
- Vila de Sena - south side of bridge over Zambezi River
- Mutarara - north side of bridge - junction for Malawi
- Kambulatsisi - junction
- Moatize - coal mines - railhead.
Proposed
- Tete - branch extension and proposed coal mine[6]
- Cheringoma - timber[7]
- Mutarara - north side of bridge - junction for Malawi
- Vila Nova da Fronteira - border with Malawi
- Nsanje
- Inhamitanga - junction
- Machipanda - (317 km)
- Dondo - junction - cement works
Chimoio- Manica
Mutare (Umtali before 1982), Zimbabwe - workshops- Rusape
Southern system
- Sango - border station
- Chicualacuala (formerly Malvernia) - border with Zimbabwe
- Mapai
- Guiga
- Manhiça
- Chokwé - way station
- Mabalane - way station
- Combomune - way station
- Mpuzi
- Magude - river crossing and junction
- Macarretane - river crossing
- Maputo - port - national capital
- Tenga - site of serious accident
- Muxia - junction
- Goba - to be restored 2008, on the border with
Eswatini - Ressano Garcia - on the border with
South Africa - Komatipoort - 90 km
- Matola - coal export port
- Salamanga - branch terminus
Southeast
- Xai-Xai - river port - 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge
- Manjacaze - junction
- Maroa - terminus
- Chicome - branch terminus
Eastern
( 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge - defunct )
Approved
Proposed
- Tete - coal mining
- 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
- A local subsidiary of Kazakhstan-based Eurasian Natural Resources Corp has commissioned Mott MacDonald to undertake studies and is seeking expressions of interest in building a 1200 km line from Chiuta in Tete province to a new port at Nacala, bypassing Malawi. The line would be available to third parties, and a passenger service.
- Moatize - coal
- Caia
- Quelimane
- Nacala - port
Possible
Serule, Botswana- Techobanine deepwater port.
See also
References
- ^ RailwaysAfrica 5/2013 p20
- ^ "Mozambique: 'Renamo Sabotaged Quelimane Railway' - Zucula". Mozambique News Agency. 8 December 2011 – via allafrica.com.
- ^ "Ncondezi Coal 2012 -". www.ncondezicoal.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-22.
- ^ "Railpage".
- ^ "Ian Allan Publishing - About Us". Archived from the original on 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ allAfrica.com: Mozambique: Australian Company Plans New Coal Mine in Tete By 2010 (Page 1 of 1)
- ^ allAfrica.com: Mozambique: Dondo/Marromeu Railway Rebuilt (Page 1 of 1)
- ^ "The Opportunity To Revitalise The Rail Sector". Railwaysafrica.com. 2022-06-17. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ^ "New Mozambique port gets approval | Railways Africa". Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
- ^ Railway Gazette International June 2009, p14
- ^ "Portuguese Group To Build Line In Malawi". Railwaysafrica.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ^ "RailwaysAfrica". Archived from the original on 2015-03-29. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
Maps
- UN Map
- UNHCR Altas Map (2005)
- Map Port Nacala railhead[permanent dead link] - shows line through Malawi to Chipata, Zambia.
- Southern Africa Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Sena Railway
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Railway stations in Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Rep. Congo
- DR Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt1
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte2
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Réunion2
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena2
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara3
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
1 Partly in Asia. 2 Dependencies. 3 Status undetermined.
