Railway stations in Angola include:

[edit] Maps

• UNJLC Map
• Map
• UNHCR Map

[edit] Towns served by rail

[edit] North line (Luanda Railway)

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

• Luanda - port - national capital ; junction
  • Caxito (80m) - branch terminus; provincial capital
  • Quicabo (200m)

• Funda (75m)
  • Cabiri (87m) - branch terminus

• Cacuaco (9m) - junction
• Viana (84m) - suburban station
  • Baía (89m) branch terminus
• Camizunzo (116m)
• Catete (90m)

• Zenza do Itombel (128m) - junction
  • Dondo (134m) - branch terminus
  • Quixinge (147m) - branch extension
• Biera Alta
• Canhoca (362m) - junction
  • Cambondo - branch terminus

• N'dalatando (688m)
• Cacuso (946m)
• Lombe (1088m)
• Malanje (1155m) (479km) - terminus

• Golungo Alto - branch terminus
• Musseques (11m)

• Bungo
• Texatang

• Boavista

• Cazenga (16m) - workshops

• Luinha (365m) - short branch

[edit] Middle line

(610mm gauge = closed )

• Gunza - port
• Gabala - terminus at mine

[edit] Central line (Benguela Railway)

( always 1067mm gauge )

• Lobito - port
• Catumbela (93m)
• Benguela - port
• Catengue
• Cubal (928m) - 171km
• Ganda (1264m) -
• Caála (1746m) - junction
• Huambo (1721m) - (380km) (was Nova Lisboa) - workshops ^[2]
• Kuito (1700m)
• Camacupa (1448m)
• Cuemba (1357m)
• Chicala
• Luena (1746m) ^[3]
• Luau (1071m) - (1269km) - border with Congo
• Dilola, Congo Kinshasa

• Cavaco River

• Caála (1746m) - junction
  • Cuima (1677m) - branch terminus

[edit] South Line (Namibe Railway)

( originally 600mm gauge, converted to 1067mm gauge in the 1950s. ^[4]

• Namibe (44m) - port
• Sacomar (14m) - (~5km) - marshalling yards
• Bibala (906m)
• Lubango (1718m) (246km) - junction

• Matala (1219m) - intermediate station
• Dongo (1452m) - (500km) - junction
• Cubango
• Cuchi (1315m)
• Menongue (1353m) - terminus (756km)

• Caraculo (532m) - concrete sleeper plant in 2008

• Lubango (1718m) - junction
• Chibia (1437m) - yards
• Chiange (1253m) - branch terminus (150km) which may be extended to link with Namibia.

• Dongo, Huila, Angola - junction
• Cassinga (1235m) - iron ore
• Chamutete (1276m) - branch terminus

• Cuto (507m)

Moçamedes railways to reach Menongue in July

Lubango - Moçamedes Railways (CFM), has announced for July the conclusion of the repair works on the Matala to Kuando-Kubango section, in an extension of 505 km.

He said so at Dongo commune, Jamba District, Matala-Dongo

third stage Kuvango and Cuchi and from this to Menongue, as well as Namibe to Lubango and to Matala, in an extension of 903 kilometres.

Matala-Kuvango, Jamba and Kuando-Kubango route.

[edit] Proposed

[edit] Northern

• Integrated Railway System would build the following:
• Luanda through the provinces of Bengo, Uíge, Zaire and Cabinda ^[5]
• Pointe Noire-Brazzaville. ^[6]

[edit] Central

• Matala (1219m) October 2009 ^[7]
• Lubango (1718m)

[edit] Southern

• Cuvelai
• Ondjiva - provincial capital
• Namacunde
• Santa Clara - near border with Namibia
• Oshikango (1099m) - (Angola-Namibia border) ^[8]

[edit] Timeline

• RP

[edit] See also

• Transport in Angola

[edit] References