Railway stations in Angola

Railway stations in Angola include:

Towns served by rail

North line (Luanda Railway) (CFL)

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

• Luanda – port – national capital; junction
• Bungo (0 km) Start of Duplication.
• Caxito – branch terminus; provincial capital
• Quicabo
• Funda
• Cabiri – branch terminus
• Sambizanga
• Rangel
• Cazenga – workshops
• Viana (23 km) – suburban station; stadium
• (junction)
• Baía Farta branch terminus; end of duplication
• Camizunzo
• Catete
• Zenza do Itombe – junction
• Dondo – branch terminus
• Quixinge – branch extension
• Beira Alta (Angola, Cuanza Norte)
• Canhoca – junction
• Cambondo – branch terminus
• N'dalatando
• Cacuso
• Lombe
• Malanje (479 km) – terminus
• Golungo Alto – branch terminus

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

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• Bungo
• Texatang
• Boa Vista

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• Cazenga – workshops

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• Luinha – short branch

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• Luanda
• Barra do Dande proposed new port

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Middle line

(610mm gauge = closed)

• Porto Amboim – port
• Gabela – terminus at mine

Central line (Benguela Railway) (CFB)

(all 1067 mm gauge)

• Lobito – port and terminus
• Catumbela – junction of original route (now Benguela branch) with 1948 deviation
• Benguela – port, terminus of branch line since 1948
• Catengue – on steeply graded section of original route which was bypassed and abandoned in 1948
• Caimbambo – end of 1948 deviation
• Cubal – 171 km
• Ganda
• Caála – junction of Cuima branch
• Huambo – (380 km) (was Nova Lisboa) – workshops
• Chinguar
• Kuito
• Camacupa
• Cuemba
• Chicala
• Luena
• Luacano junction for proposed short cut rail line to Zambian copper mines
• Luau – (1269 km) – border with DRCongo
• Dilolo, Congo Kinshasa

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• Cavaco River

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

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• Benguela line junction
• Proposed short cut line due 2012
• Benguela Railway (CFB)
• Luacano junction to Zambia
• Jimbe border checkpoint
• Chingola, Zambia – railhead

South Line (Moçâmedes Railway) (CFM)

(originally gauge, converted to gauge in the 1950s.)

• Moçâmedes – port
• Sacomar – (~5 km) – marshalling yards
• Bibala
• Lubango (246 km) – junction

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• Maquelo,
• Laceiras,
• Micose,
• Cabanas,
• Kapunda,
• Kuvango (Huíla),
• Tombolo,
• Vembambi,
• Viungue
• Kuelei.

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• Matala – intermediate station
• Dongo – (500 km) – junction
• Dongo Novo
• Entroncamento
• Cubango
• Cuchi
• Menongue – terminus (756 km)

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• Caraculo – concrete sleeper plant in 2008

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• Lubango – junction
• Chibia – yards
• Chiange – branch terminus (150 km) which may be extended to link with Namibia.
• Cuvelai
• Ondjiva – provincial capital

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• Dongo – junction
• Cassinga – iron ore
• Chamutete – branch terminus in far south

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• Cuto

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• (Unknown location)
• Namialo – concrete sleeper plant.

Proposed

Northern

• Integrated Railway System would build the following:
• Luanda through the provinces of Bengo, Uíge, Zaire and Cabinda
• Luena
• Luau
• Matadi
• junction with Matadi-Kinshasa Railway
• includes road-rail Matadi Bridge over Congo River in Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Cabinda Province exclave
• Pointe Noire- Brazzaville.

Central North

• Malanje
• Kuito

Central (Benguela line)

• Luacano, Moxico province east junction
• Short cut line due 2012; current route via DR Congo
• Lumwana line
• Solwezi new mining town
• Chingola
• Zambia

Central South

• Kuito
• Dondo

Southern

• Dongo – junction
• Chamutete railhead in south; also spelled Tchamutete.
• Cuvelai
• Ondjiva – provincial capital
• Namacunde

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• Cassinga
• Cuvango
• Santa-Clara, Angola – near border with Namibia
• Oshikango, Namibia – (Angola-Namibia border)
• Ondangwa railhead in north of Namibia

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• Matala October 2009
• Lubango – junction

See also

• Railway stations in Congo Brazzaville
• Railway stations in Congo Kinshasa
• Transport in Angola
• Railway stations in Namibia

References