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Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

include:

Towns served by railways

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

Northern system

(northernmost) (CDN) (from west to east) *

Nayuchi Nayuchi is a town located in Machinga District in Malawi. Serving as a border post for road and rail control between Malawi and Mozambique.Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

- border town. *

Malema Malema is a town in the district of Malema. It is situated within the province of Nampula in Mozambique. The district borders the districts of: Ribaue, Lalaua, Alto Molocue, Gurue, Cuamba, and others. The district is dependent on agricultur ...

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Ribaue Ribaue is a town in northern Mozambique in the Ribáuè District. Ribaue lies immediately southeast of Mount Ribáuè. Transport It is served by a station on the narrow gauge Nacala Railway system. See also * Railway stations in Mozambique ...

Nampula Nampula is the capital city of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique. With a population of 743,125 (2017 census), it is the third-largest city in Mozambique after Maputo and Matola. The city is located in the interior of Nampula Province, approxi ...

- workshops * Metocheria *

Gelo Gelon also known as Gelo (Greek: Γέλων ''Gelon'', ''gen.'': Γέλωνος; died 478 BC), son of Deinomenes, was a Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, and first of the Deinomenid rulers. Early life Gelon was the son o ...

* Monapo - junction ** Nachicuva River *

Nacala Nacala, also known as Cidade de Nacala or Nacala-Porto is a city on the northern coast of Mozambique. Located in the southwestern indentation of inner Fernao Veloso Bay, it is the deepest natural port on the east coast of Africa. Nacala serves as ...

- deep water port ---- * Monapo - junction **

Lumbo Lumbo is a port on the northeast Indian Ocean coast of Mozambique. It is part of the Island of Mozambique District in Nampula Province. It was served by a branch of the main northern line of the national Mozambique railway system which also serv ...

- port ---- *

Cuamba Cuamba is a city and district of Niassa Province in Mozambique, lying north west of Mount Namuli. Before independence the town was known as ''Nova Freixo'' (New Ash). It lies on the EN8 road, which connects it to the city of Nampula in the east ...

- junction to Lichinga **

Lichinga Lichinga is the capital city of Niassa Province of Mozambique. It lies on the Lichinga Plateau at an altitude of , east of Lake Niassa (Lake Malawi). The town was founded as Vila Cabral as a farming and military settlement. It is served by Lich ...

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---- * (location unknown) ** Namialo

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plant. ---- (isolated line) * Matiban

Zambezi system

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

Quelimane Quelimane () is a seaport in Mozambique. It is the administrative capital of the Zambezia Province and the province's largest city, and stands from the mouth of the Rio dos Bons Sinais (or "River of the Good Signs"). The river was named when V ...

- river port * Nicoadala *

Namacurra Namacurra is a small town in um dos distrito da provincia da zambezia central Mozambique. Transport It lies on the former railway between Quelimane and Vila de Mocuba. See also * Railway stations in Mozambique Railway stations in Mozambiqu ...

* Naciaia *

Mocuba Mocuba is a city and seat of Mocuba District of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. It is located on the Licungo River. Demographics See also * Railways in Mozambique * Railway stations in Mozambique Railway stations in Mozambique include: ...

- terminus (also called Vila de Mocuba) ---- (possible

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Tete Tete is the capital city of Tete Province in Mozambique. It is located on the Zambezi River, and is the site of two of the four bridges crossing the river in Mozambique. A Swahili trade center before the Portuguese colonial era, Tete continues ...

- coal mines. *

Macuse Macuse is a coastal town in Mozambique. It is a short distance to the northeast of the river port of Quelimane. Transport It is near the site of a proposed port and railhead for the export of coal. The exact site of the port is highly variable. S ...

- proposed coal export port. Near

Central system

The railway to Zimbabwe was originally in 1890, but was converted to in 1900. (

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valley ) * Beira - port * Dondo - junction - cement works *

Muanza Muanza is one of two towns of this name in Mozambique. It is the headquarters of Muanza District. It is served by the Mozambique Railway's Central line. See also * Railway stations in Mozambique Railway stations in Mozambique include: Towns ...

- limestone * Inhaminga *

Inhamitanga Inhamitanga is a town in Cheringoma District in Sofala Province of Mozambique. Transport It is served by a station on the Mozambique Railway system, where it is a junction. Inhamitanga is connected by an unpaved road R1002 with Chupanga. ...

- junction * Caia - junction *

Vila de Sena Vila de Sena or more commonly Sena is a town in Mozambique where there is a fundamental bridge over the Zambezi River. This bridge, the Dona Ana Bridge was originally a single track railway bridge, temporarily converted to road operation during ...

- south side of bridge over

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Mutarara Mutarara, or Nhamayabué, is a town in Mozambique. It lies on the north bank of the Zambezi River. Transport Mutarara is served by a station on the Sena railway of Mozambique Ports and Railways. It is the junction for the line to Malawi. It al ...

- north side of bridge - junction for

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

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** Manica - border ** Mankhakwe,

* Kambulatsisi - junction *

Moatize Moatize is the principal town and administrative center of Moatize District in western Mozambique, Mozambique's Tete Province. It is located on the eastern side of the Zambezi River at the confluence of the Moatize and Revúboé River, Revuboe Riv ...

- coal mines - railhead.

Proposed

- branch extension and proposed coal mine * Cheringoma - timber ---- *

- north side of bridge - junction for

* Vila Nova da Fronteira - border with Malawi *

Nsanje Nsanje (formerly Port Herald) is the main city in Nsanje District within the Southern Region of Malawi. The intense urbanization in the fertile Shire River valley has formed an extensive urbanized zone that runs from the city of Bangula, furt ...

---- *

- junction ** Marromeu - branch terminus - sugar (82 km) - restored Sep 2008 ** Valente ---- * Caia - junction ** Valente - branch terminus ---- *

Machipanda Machipanda is a town in Manica District, in the middle of Manica Province, Mozambique, near the border with Zimbabwe. Transport The city has one of the most important railway stations on the Beira–Bulawayo railway (or Machipanda railway), t ...

- (317 km) ---- * Dondo - junction -

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works *

Chimoio Chimoio is the capital of Manica Province in Mozambique. It is the fifth-largest city in Mozambique. Chimoio's name under Portuguese administration was ''Vila Pery''. Vila Pery developed under Portuguese rule as an important agricultural and tex ...

* Manica *

Mutare Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban area, urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 ...

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Umtali Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 in the surr ...

before 1982),

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

- workshops *

Rusape Rusape is a town in Zimbabwe. Location It is located in Makoni District in Manicaland Province, in northeastern Zimbabwe. It lies approximately , by road, southeast of Harare, the capital and the largest city in Zimbabwe. Rusape is situated on ...

Southern system

* Sango - border station *

Chicualacuala Chicualacuala is a town located in the province of Gaza in Mozambique. The town is better known by this unofficial name (and the name of the district to which the town belongs) than by its official toponym Vila Eduardo Mondlane. History The c ...

(formerly Malvernia) - border with

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger in ...

* Guiga * Manhiça * Chokwé - way station * Mabalane - way station * Combomune - way station * Mpuzi * Magude - river crossing and junction * Macarretane - river crossing *

Maputo Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the Capital city, capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a popul ...

- port - national capital * Tenga - site of serious accident * Muxia - junction *

Goba Goba ( Oromo: ', Amharic: ጎባ) is a town and separate woreda located in the Bale Zone of the Oromia Region, Ethiopia approximately 446 km southeast of Addis Ababa, this city has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,743 meters ...

- to be restored 2008, on the border with

Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...

* Ressano Garcia - on the border with South Africa *

Komatipoort Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8 km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger Park, and just 5 km from the Mozambique border ...

- 90 km *

Matola Matola is the largest suburb of the Mozambique capital, Maputo, adjacent to its westernmost side. It is the nation's second most populated city. Matola is the capital of Maputo Province and has had its own elected municipal government since 199 ...

- coal export port *

Salamanga Salamanga is a town in southern Mozambique. Transport The town is served by a terminus of a branchline of the Goba railway of the national railway network. The main traffic is limestone used in the manufacture of cement. In 2008, $8m was to ...

- branch terminus

Southeast

Xai-Xai Xai-Xai () is a city in the south of Mozambique. Until 1975, the city was named João Belo. It is the capital of Gaza Province. As of 2007 it has a population of 116,343. History Portuguese rule Xai-Xai, formerly João Belo, developed in the e ...

- river port - gauge *

Manjacaze Manjacaze (''Manxakadze'') is a town in the province of Gaza, Mozambique. It serves as the administrative center of Manjacaze District. Demographics Economy The town formerly had a cashew processing plant, which was shut down in the early ...

- junction * Maroa - terminus * Chicome - branch terminus

Eastern

( gauge - defunct ) * Inhambane - port *

Inharrime Inharrime is a small town in Inharrime District in southern Mozambique on the shores of some coastal lakes. Transport It was once served by an isolated narrow gauge railway from the port of Inhambane. It is now accessible by bus services f ...

- terminus

Approved

* Matutuine - new coal port approved October 2009

Proposed

- coal mining ---- * ( short-cut) *

Blantyre Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, L ...

---- * * 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

, bypassing Malawi. The line would be available to third parties, and a passenger service. *

- coal * Caia *

- port ---- *

Ludewa Ludewa is a town and ward in Ludewa District of Njombe Region Njombe Region (''Mkoa wa Njombe'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers a land area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined lan ...

- coal *

Njombe Njombe is a town in southern Tanzania. It is the regional capital of Njombe Region as well as the district headquarter of Njombe Rural District and Njombe Urban District. It is located at nearly 2000 meters of altitude on the eastern edge of the ...

- coal *

Mtwara Mtwara ( Portuguese: ''Montewara'') is the capital city of Mtwara Region in southeastern Tanzania. In the 1940s, it was planned and constructed as the export facility for the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme, but was somewhat neglected whe ...

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Serule Serule is a village in Central District of Botswana. Serule, with a latitude of -21.95 (21° 56' 60 S) and a longitude of 27.3 (27° 18' 0 E), is a streets, highways, roads, or railroad (railroad siding). The village is located along the road ...

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

* Techobanine

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References

Maps

UN Map

UNHCR Altas Map (2005)

Map Port Nacala railhead
- shows line through Malawi to

Chipata The city of Chipata is the administrative centre of the Eastern Province of Zambia and Chipata District. It was declared the 5th city of the country, after Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe and Livingstone, by President Edgar Lungu on 24 February 2017. The c ...

, Zambia.
Southern Africa

{{Railway stations in Africa

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