ARailway stations in

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

include:

Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway The Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway is a railway system, under construction, linking the country to the neighbouring countries of Rwanda and Uganda, and through these two, to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of East Afr ...

Maps

UN Map
- Tanga and Kidatu lines not shown.
Railways in southern Africa

UNHCR Map
* Interactive map of Tanzania railways * Look for the MSN Map at the bottom of pages of many towns, or look for the Map Button at the top and scroll down the MSN map.

Towns served by rail

Tanzania Railways Corporation

( all gauge)

Central Line

Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...

- ocean port - former national capital - 8 km from

TAZARA The Tazara Railway, also called the Uhuru Railway or the Tanzam Railway, is a railway in East Africa linking the port of Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania with the town of Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia's Central Province. The single-track railway is ...

line Railways in Tanzania
/ref> # Ruvu (75m) - junction to Tanga line #

Morogoro Morogoro is a city in the eastern part of Tanzania west of Dar es Salaam. Morogoro is the capital of the Morogoro Region. It is also known informally as "Mji kasoro bahari" which translates to “city short of an ocean/port." The Belgian based ...

(510m) - junction to north #

Kilosa Kilosa (Kilossa) is a city in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania, East Africa. It is the administrative seat for Kilosa District. , the population of the town was 26,060. Transport Kilosa is a station on Tanzania's east-west Central Line (Tanzania) ...

(572m) - junction going south to

# Gulwe (680m) #

Igandu Igandu is a town in central Tanzania. Transport Igandu has a station on the Central Line (Tanzania), Central Railway of Tanzania Railways Corporation, Tanzanian Railways. It is near the site of the disastrous Igandu train disaster. See a ...

(985m) #

Dodoma Dodoma ( in Gogo), officially Dodoma City, is the national capital of Tanzania and the capital of the Dodoma Region, with a population of 410,956. In 1974, the Tanzanian government announced that the capital would be moved to Dodoma for social a ...

(1148m) - The national capital #

Manyoni Manyoni is a town in central Tanzania. It is the district headquarter of Manyoni District. Transport Paved trunk road T3 from Morogoro to the Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country ...

(1244m) - junction going north to

Singida Singida is a town in central Tanzania. The town is the location of the regional headquarters of Singida Region as well as the district headquarters of Singida Urban District. The region and district are named after the town. Transport Road l ...

# Itigi (1306m) #

Ikungu Ikungu is a town in central Tanzania. Transport It is served by a station on the Central Railway of Tanzania. See also * Railway stations in Tanzania ARailway stations in Tanzania include: * Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway Maps UN ...

(1289m) #

Tabora Tabora is the capital of Tanzania's Tabora Region and is classified as a municipality by the Tanzanian government. It is also the administrative seat of Tabora Urban District. According to the 2012 census, the district had a population of 226,999. ...

(1212m) - junction going north to

Mwanza Mwanza City, also known as Rock City to the residents, is a port city and capital of Mwanza Region on the southern shore of Lake Victoria in north-western Tanzania. With an urban population of 1,182,000 in 2021, it is Tanzania's second largest c ...

Kaliua Kaliua is a town in Tabora Region in western Tanzania. Transport It lies on the Central Railway of Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Afr ...

(1112m) - junction going south to

Mpanda Mpanda is a city in Katavi Region of Tanzania, East Africa with a postcode number 50100. It is the administrative centre of Katavi Region, Mpanda District and is itself one of the four districts of the region. Mpanda is a "frontier town" in ...

Kigoma Kigoma is a city and lake port in Kigoma-Ujiji District in Tanzania, on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. It serves as the capital for the surrounding Kigoma R ...

(775m) - terminal and port on

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...

Kidatu Line

# (Not shown on map) #

(572m) - junction #

Kidatu Kidatu is a town in central Tanzania, located in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region. The local population is about 3,300. The primary economic activity is the large Illovo sugar cane plantation and factory which produces of sugar per year. ...

(294m) - branch terminus - also served with

break of gauge With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge (the distance between the rails, or between the wheels of trains designed to run on those rails) meets a line of a different gauge. Trains and rolling stock generally cannot ...

, with a container trans-shipment facility to move freight containers between TAZARA and Tanzania Railways Corporation trains

Mwanza Line

(1212m) - junction # Bukene (1188m) #

Isaka Isaka is a small town and station on the narrow-gauge Mwanza railway line of Tanzania which connects to the seaport of Dar es Salaam. Transport It is located in Kahama Rural District of Shinyanga Region. In the 1980s a dry port was establ ...

(1197m) - '

dry port A dry port (sometimes referred to as an inland port) is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to a seaport, operating as a centre for the transshipment of sea cargo to inland destinations. In addition to their role in ...

' and proposed junction for lines to

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

and

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

Shinyanga Shinyanga, also known as Shinyanga Mji in the local Swahili language, is a city in northern Tanzania. The city is the location of the regional headquarters of Shinyanga Region as well as the district headquarters of Shinyanga Urban District. The ...

(1126m) #

(1209m) - inland port on

Lake Victoria Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after ...

Mpanda Line

(1112m) - junction #

(1074m) - branch terminus

Singida Line

(1244m) - junction # Issuna (1423m) # Ikungi (1532m) # Puma #

(1122m) - branch terminus

Link Line

(510m) - junction with Central Line # Ruvu (75m) # Kitonga (65m) # Sadani (1m) #

Hale Hale may refer to: Places Australia *Hale, Northern Territory, a locality *Hale River, in southeastern Northern Territory Canada *Hale, Ontario, in Algoma District United Kingdom * Hale, Cumbria, a hamlet near Beetham, Cumbria *Hale, Greater Man ...

(184m) - junction #

Korogwe Korogwe is a town in Tanzania, with a population of 56,282 in 2012. It is the main centre of Korogwe District, which is within the Tanga Region. Overview The town is the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Tanga and has a cathedral church dedicat ...

(301m) - junction with Tanga Line

Tanga line

# Tanga (1m) - ocean port #

(301m) - junction to south # Mkomazi (485m) # Same (897m) # Moshi (990m) - junction to north and Kenya #

Arusha Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census). Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern bran ...

(1254m) - soda ash mining

Proposed extensions

* September 2007 #

(1254m) #

Musoma Musoma is a city in the east shore of lake Victoria of Tanzania. It is the capital of Mara Region, one of the administrative Regions of Tanzania. It also serves as the administrative centre of Musoma Rural District and Musoma Urban District. L ...

(1172m) on

. ---- # Tanga # Mwambani Bay ---- * ( gauge) # Tanga #

# Mutukula, Tanzania *

Mutukula, Uganda Mutukula is a town in the Central Region of Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community. It sits adjacent to Mutukula, Tanzania, directly across the international border between Uganda and Tanzania. Location Mutukula is lo ...

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

---- * (branch) * Mutukula *

port

Standard Gauge

## Pugu (19 km) ## Soga (51 km) # Ruvu (74 km) - junction on old line only. ##

Freight Yard A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...

(93 km) ## Ngerengere (135 km) #

(205 km) - end stage one - work started in April 2017. #

- capital # Makutupora - (336 km from previous station) #

- (294 km) #

- (133 km) - inland dry port #

- (249 km) - port city on

Mtwara Line (Southern Province Railway) - (defunct)

In 1949 a line was built to link the

Tanganyika groundnut scheme The Tanganyika groundnut scheme, or East Africa groundnut scheme, was a failed attempt by the British government to cultivate tracts of its African trust territory Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania) with peanuts. Launched in the aftermath of Worl ...

plantations around

Nachingwea Nachingwea is a district in the Lindi Region of Tanzania. The district is bordered to the north by the Ruangwa District, to the east by the Lindi Rural District, to the south-east by the Mtwara Region, and to the south-west by the Ruvuma Regio ...

with the port of

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 when t ...

. The scheme famously foundered and the railway was abandoned in 1962. Proposals have been made for a new railway to link Mtwara to

iron ore Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the fo ...

deposits in the west, perhaps linking via

Songea Songea is the capital of Ruvuma Region in southwestern Tanzania. It is located along the A19 road. The city has a population of approximately 203,309, and it is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Songea. Between 1905 and 1907, the cit ...

Liganga Liganga is a site in Njombe Region, Tanzania where iron ore is mined in Liganga mine. It is also rich in both vanadium and titanium. The deposits are near Lake Malawi Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Moz ...

Island of Unguja

A short line lasted from 1879 to 1888.

Mtwara (rebuilt)

(1 m) - port for groundnut scheme #

Lindi Lindi is a historic southern Tanzanian coastal small city and regional capital of the Lindi Region located at the far end of Lindi Bay, on the Indian Ocean in southeastern Tanzania. The town is south of Dar es Salaam and north of Mtwara, ...

(1 m) - potential port #

(380 m)

groundnut scheme The Tanganyika groundnut scheme, or East Africa groundnut scheme, was a failed attempt by the British government to cultivate tracts of its African trust territory Tanganyika Territory, Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania) with peanuts. Launched in ...

terminus #

Mchuchuma Mchuchuma in south western Tanzania near Ludewa off the northern tip of Lake Nyasa, is the site of major coal deposits. There is also a thermal power station costing$612m. Recent studies indicate that Mchuchuma/ Ketewaka coal deposits should be c ...

(____m) - coal #

(1210 m) - iron ore

TAZARA Railway

Formerly also called ''TanZam Railway''. gauge to match Zambian/Southern African networks. #

- ocean port - 8 km from TRC line # Mzenga (137 m) #

Kisaki is a Japanese musician who has worked with several visual kei bands, including La:Sadie's, Syndrome, Kisaki ProjectKidatu Kidatu is a town in central Tanzania, located in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region. The local population is about 3,300. The primary economic activity is the large Illovo sugar cane plantation and factory which produces of sugar per year. ...

(294 m) -

connection with

Tanzania Railways Corporation The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) is a state-owned enterprise that runs one of Tanzania's two main railway networks. When the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation was dissolved in 1977 and its assets divided between Kenya, Tan ...

, with a container trans-shipment facility to move freight containers between TAZARA and Tanzania Railways Corporation trains. on short branch. # Mang'ula # Kiberege #

Ifakara Ifakara is a small rural town in the Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, south central Tanzania. It is the headquarters of the Kilombero District administration and the main trading centre for Kilombero and Ulanga districts. The town is located ...

(192 m) # Lwipa # Mbingu # Mngeta # Chita #

Mlimba Mlimba is a town in central Tanzania on the plains. Location Mlimba is in Kilombero District, in Morogoro Region, in south-central Tanzania, approximately , by road, south-west of Kilombero, where the district headquarters are located. This is ...

Makambako Makambako is a medium-sized town and district in the Njombe Region of the Tanzanian Southern Highlands, located roughly 40 miles north of Njombe city by road. It is located at junction of the A104 and B4 roads between Njombe, Iringa, and Mbeya. I ...

Chimala Chimala is an administrative ward in the Mbarali District of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the Africa ...

Mbeya Mbeya is a city located in south west Tanzania, Africa. Mbeya's urban population is 620,000 according to the 2022 census. Mbeya is the capital of the surrounding rural Mbeya region (population, with Mbeya, totals approx. 2 million). Mbeya is sit ...

(1661 m) - workshops # Mbozi # Vwawa (1274 m) #

Tunduma Tunduma is a town in Songwe Region, Tanzania, on the border between Tanzania and Zambia. It has border posts for both the Tanzam Highway and the TAZARA railway (for which it has a station) linking the two countries. It is located 103 km southwest ...

(1301 m) * -

Zambian Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are th ...

border *

Mkushi Mkushi is a town in the Central Province of Zambia, located on the Great North Road and the Tazara railway, northeast of Kapiri Mposhi. The Changwena Falls and Fort Elwes (built-in 1896 by European gold prospectors) lie nearby. Mkushi is w ...

Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...

(1277 m) ---- *

possible junction * Kasanga

Rehabilitation

* North-South Corridor Project

Gauge

and are too close to allow 3-rail dual gauge; you have to have 4-rail dual gauge. But if you have 4-rail gauge, then you can include gauge (

standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...

) at the cost of slightly longer sleepers.

Container port

The container port at

is served by both and railway gauge tracks.
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References

{{Railway stations in Africa

Railway stations A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...