Railway stations in Mozambique

Railway stations in Mozambique include:

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.^[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)

• Tete - coal mines.
• Macuse - proposed coal export port. Near Quelimane.^[3][4]

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
  • Charre
  • Manica - border
  • Mankhakwe, 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
  • Marromeu - branch terminus - sugar (82 km) - restored Sep 2008^[8]
  • 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^[9]

Proposed

• Tete - coal mining

• (145 km short-cut)
• Blantyre
• Moatize ^[10][11]

• 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

^[12]

Possible

• Serule, Botswana
• Techobanine deepwater port.

See also

• Transport in Mozambique
• Railway stations in Malawi

References

Maps

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