# Railway stations in Mozambique

Railway stations in Mozambique include:

## Towns served by railways

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

### Northern system

(northernmost) (CDN) (from west to east)
* Nayuchi - Malawi - border town.
* Malema - way station
** Ribaue
* Nampula - workshops
* Metocheria
* Gelo
* Monapo - junction
** Nachicuva River
* Nacala - deep water port
* Monapo - junction
** Lumbo - port
* Cuamba - junction to Lichinga
** Lichinga - railhead
* (location unknown)
** Namialo concrete sleeper plant.
(isolated line)
* Matiban

### Zambezi system

(gauge unknown) - line sabotaged during civil war, and later pulled up for scrap.
* Quelimane - river port
* Nicoadala
* Namacurra
* Naciaia
* Mocuba - terminus (also called Vila de Mocuba)
(possible standard gauge)
* Tete - coal mines.
* Macuse - proposed coal export port. Near Quelimane.

### Central system

The railway to Zimbabwe was originally 610 mm (2 ft) in 1890, but was converted to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) in 1900.
( Zambezi valley )
* Beira - port
* Dondo - junction - cement works
* Muanza - limestone
* Inhaminga
* Inhamitanga - junction
* Caia - junction
* Vila de Sena - south side of bridge over Zambezi River
* Mutarara - north side of bridge - junction for Malawi
** Charre
** Manica - border
** Mankhakwe, Malawi
* Kambulatsisi - junction
* Moatize - coal mines - railhead.

#### Proposed

* Tete - branch extension and proposed coal mine
* Cheringoma - timber
* Mutarara - north side of bridge - junction for Malawi
* Vila Nova da Fronteira - border with Malawi
* Nsanje
* Inhamitanga - junction
** Marromeu - branch terminus - sugar (82 km) - restored Sep 2008
** Valente
* Caia - junction
** Valente - branch terminus
* Machipanda - (317 km)
* Dondo - junction - cement works
* Chimoio
* Manica
* Mutare (Umtali before 1982), Zimbabwe - workshops
* Rusape

### Southern system

* Sango - border station
* Chicualacuala (formerly Malvernia) - border with Zimbabwe
* Mapai
* Guiga
* Manhiça
* Chokwé - way station
* Mabalane - way station
* Combomune - way station
* Mpuzi
* Magude - river crossing and junction
* Macarretane - river crossing
* Maputo - port - national capital
* Tenga - site of serious accident
* Muxia - junction
* Goba - to be restored 2008, on the border with Eswatini
* Ressano Garcia - on the border with South Africa
* Komatipoort - 90 km
* Matola - coal export port
* Salamanga - branch terminus

### Southeast

* Xai-Xai - river port - 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge
* Manjacaze - junction
* Maroa - terminus
* Chicome - branch terminus

### Eastern

( 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge - defunct )
* Inhambane - port
* Inharrime - terminus

### Approved

* Matutuine - new coal port approved October 2009

### Proposed

* Tete - coal mining
* (145 km or 90 mi short-cut)
* Blantyre
* Moatize
* 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
* 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 Nacala, bypassing Malawi. The line would be available to third parties, and a passenger service.
* Moatize - coal
* Caia
* Quelimane
* Nacala - port
* Ludewa - coal
* Njombe - coal
* Mtwara - port in south

### Possible

* Serule, Botswana
* Techobanine deepwater port.