Towns served by railways
(The lines do not all connect, or connect indirectly)
Contents
- Towns served by railways
- Northern system
- Zambezi system
- Central system
- Southern system
- Southeast
- Eastern
- Approved
- Proposed 2
- Possible
- See also
- References
- Maps
Northern system
(northernmost) (CDN) (from west to east)
- Nayuchi -
Malawi - border town. - Malema - way station
- Nampula - workshops
- Metocheria
- Gelo
- Monapo - junction
- Nacala - deep water port
- (location unknown)
- Namialo concrete sleeper plant. [1]
(isolated line)
Zambezi system
(gauge unknown) - line sabotaged during civil war, and later pulled up for scrap. [2]
(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)
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
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
