Railway stations in Tanzania


Railway stations in Tanzania include:

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Towns served by rail

Tanzania Railways Corporation

Central Line

  1. Dar es Salaam - ocean port - former national capital - 8 km from TAZARA line
  2. Ruvu - junction to [|Tanga line]
  3. Morogoro - junction to north
  4. Kilosa - junction going south to TAZARA
  5. Gulwe
  6. Igandu
  7. Dodoma - The national capital
  8. Manyoni - junction going north to Singida
  9. Itigi
  10. Ikungu
  11. Tabora - junction going north to Mwanza
  12. Kaliua - junction going south to Mpanda
  13. Kigoma - terminal and port on Lake Tanganyika

Kidatu Line

  2. Kilosa - junction
  3. Kidatu - branch terminus - also served with break of gauge by TAZARA, with a container trans-shipment facility to move freight containers between TAZARA and Tanzania Railways Corporation trains

Mwanza Line

  1. Tabora - junction
  2. Bukene
  3. Isaka - 'dry port' and proposed junction for lines to Rwanda and Burundi
  4. Shinyanga
  5. Mwanza - inland port on Lake Victoria

Mpanda Line

  1. Kaliua - junction
  2. Mpanda - branch terminus

Singida Line

  1. Manyoni - junction
  2. Issuna
  3. Ikungi
  4. Puma
  5. Singida - branch terminus

Link Line

  1. Morogoro - junction with Central Line
  2. Ruvu
  3. Kitonga
  4. Sadani
  5. Hale - junction
  6. Korogwe - junction with Tanga Line

Tanga line

  1. Tanga - ocean port
  2. Korogwe - junction to south
  3. Mkomazi
  4. Same
  5. Moshi - junction to north and Kenya
  6. Arusha - soda ash mining

Proposed extensions

  1. Arusha
  2. Musoma on Lake Victoria.
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  1. Tanga
  2. Mwambani Bay
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  1. Tanga
  2. Singida
  3. Mutukula, Tanzania
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Standard Gauge

  1. Dar es Salaam
  2. # Pugu
  3. # Soga
  4. Ruvu - junction on old line only.
  5. # Freight Yard
  6. # Ngerengere
  7. Morogoro - end stage one - work started in April 2017.
  8. Dodoma - capital
  9. Makutupora -
  10. Tabora -
  11. Isaka - - inland dry port
  12. Mwanza - - port city on Lake Victoria
  13. Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika

Mtwara Line (Southern Province Railway) - (defunct)

In 1949 a line was built to link the Tanganyika groundnut scheme plantations around Nachingwea with the port of Mtwara. 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 deposits in the west, perhaps linking via Songea to Liganga.

Island of Unguja

A short line lasted from 1879 to 1888.

Mtwara (rebuilt)

  1. Mtwara - port for groundnut scheme
  2. Lindi - potential port
  3. Nachingwea groundnut scheme terminus
  4. Mchuchuma - coal
  5. Songea
  6. Liganga - iron ore

TAZARA Railway

Formerly also called TanZam Railway.
gauge to match Zambian/Southern African networks.
  1. Dar es Salaam - ocean port - 8 km from TRC line
  2. Mzenga
  3. Kisaki
  4. Kidatu - break of gauge connection with Tanzania Railways Corporation, with a container trans-shipment facility to move freight containers between TAZARA and Tanzania Railways Corporation trains. on short branch.
  5. Mang'ula
  6. Kiberege
  7. Ifakara
  8. Lwipa
  9. Mbingu
  10. Mngeta
  11. Chita
  12. Mlimba
  13. Makambako
  14. Chimala
  15. Mbeya - workshops
  16. Mbozi
  17. Vwawa
  18. Tunduma, Tanzania
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Rehabilitation

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 at the cost of slightly longer sleepers.

Container port

The container port at Dar es Salaam is served by both and railway gauge tracks.