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Railway stations in Mozambique

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Railway stations in Mozambique include:

Contents

Towns served by railways

(The lines do not all connect, or connect indirectly)

Nacala 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.

    • (isolated line)

  • Matiban

    • Zambezi system

    (gauge unknown) - line sabotaged during civil war, and later pulled up for scrap.

  • Quelimane - river port
  • Nicoadala
  • Namacurra
  • Naciaia
  • Mocuba - terminus (also called Vila de Mocuba)

    • (possible standard gauge)

  • Tete - coal mines.
  • Macuse - proposed coal export port. Near Quelimane.

    • 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.

    ( 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
  • Charre
  • Manica - border
  • Mankhakwe, Malawi
  • Kambulatsisi - junction
  • Moatize - coal mines - railhead.

    • Proposed

  • Tete - branch extension and proposed coal mine
  • Cheringoma - timber
  • Mutarara - north side of bridge - junction for Malawi
  • Vila Nova da Fronteira - border with Malawi
  • Nsanje
  • Inhamitanga - junction
  • Marromeu - branch terminus - sugar (82 km) - restored Sep 2008
  • Valente
  • Caia - junction
  • Valente - branch terminus
  • 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
  • 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 )

  • Inhambane - port
  • Inharrime - terminus

    • Other

  • Beira Railroad Corporation

    • Approved

  • Matutuine - new coal port approved October 2009

    • Proposed

  • Tete - coal mining
  • (145 km short-cut)
  • Blantyre
  • Moatize
  • 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
  • Ludewa - coal
  • Njombe - coal
  • Mtwara - port in south

    • Possible

  • Serule, Botswana
  • Techobanine deepwater port.

    • Maps

  • UN Map
  • UNHCR Altas Map (2005)
  • Map Port Nacala railhead - shows line through Malawi to Chipata, Zambia.
  • Southern Africa
  • Sena Railway

    • References

    Railway stations in Mozambique Wikipedia
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