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Railway stations in Angola

Railway stations in Angola

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Railway stations in Angola include:

Angola railway network 
1067mm gauge tracks, 
610mm gauge tracks (closed) ;
1067mm proposed

Towns served by rail

North line (Luanda Railway) (CFL)

(Also known as Luanda Railway[1]) (originally 1000 mm gauge, now 1067 mm gauge)

  • Musseques – first passenger halt from port[7]
  • Filda
  • Grafanil
  • Estagem
  • Comarca
  • Viana
  • Pomagol

Middle line

(610mm gauge = closed)

Central line (Benguela Railway) (CFB)

(all 1067 mm gauge)

  • Caála – junction
    • Cuima – branch terminus, line formerly continued to a mine at the Cunhangamua river

South Line (Moçâmedes Railway) (CFM)

(originally 600 millimetres (2 ft 0 in) gauge,[12] converted to 1,067 millimetres (3 ft 6.0 in) gauge in the 1950s.)

  • Maquelo,
  • Laceiras,
  • Micose,
  • Cabanas,
  • Kapunda,
  • Kuvango (Huíla),
  • Tombolo,
  • Vembambi,
  • Viungue
  • Kuelei.[13]
  • Matala – intermediate station
  • Dongo – (500 km) – junction
  • Dongo Novo
  • Entroncamento
  • Cubango
  • Cuchi
  • Menongue – terminus (756 km)

Proposed

Northern

Central North

Central (Benguela line)

Central South

Southern

See also

References

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