Railway stations in Angola

Railway stations in Angola include:

Towns served by rail

North line (Luanda Railway) (CFL)

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

Luanda – port – national capital; junction
- Bungo (0 km)^[2]^[3] Start of Duplication.^[4]
- Caxito – branch terminus; provincial capital
- Quicabo
Funda^[5]
- Cabiri – branch terminus
Sambizanga
Rangel
Cazenga – workshops
Viana (23 km) – suburban station; stadium^[6]
- (junction)
- Baía Farta branch terminus; end of duplication^[4]
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

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

Bungo
Texatang
Boa Vista

Cazenga – workshops

Luinha – short branch

Luanda
Barra do Dande proposed new port^[8]

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^[9]
Chinguar
Kuito
Camacupa
Cuemba
Chicala
Luena^[10]
Luacano junction for proposed short cut rail line to Zambian copper mines^[11]
Luau – (1269 km) – border with DRCongo
Dilolo, Congo Kinshasa

Cavaco River

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

Benguela line junction
- Proposed short cut line due 2012
- Benguela Railway (CFB)
- Luacano junction to Zambia^[11]
- Jimbe border checkpoint
- Chingola, Zambia – railhead

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.)

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

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)

Caraculo – concrete sleeper plant in 2008

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

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

Cuto

(Unknown location)
Namialo – concrete sleeper plant.^[14]

Proposed

Northern

Integrated Railway System would build the following:^[8]^[15]
Luanda through the provinces of Bengo, Uíge, Zaire and Cabinda^[16]
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.^[17]

Central North

Malanje
Kuito^[18]

Central (Benguela line)

Luacano, Moxico province east junction
- Short cut line due 2012; current route via DR Congo^[19]^[20]^[21]
- Lumwana line
- Solwezi new mining town
- Chingola
Zambia

Central South

Kuito
Dondo^[18]

Southern

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

Cassinga
Cuvango
Santa-Clara, Angola – near border with Namibia
Oshikango, Namibia – (Angola-Namibia border)^[22]
Ondangwa railhead in north of Namibia^[23]

Matala October 2009
Lubango – junction

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