Classic route
Caminho de Ferro de Moçâmedes
Namibe → Menongue · Angola
Caminho de Ferro de Moçâmedes in pictures
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- Distance
- 756 km
- Fastest time
- ~15 h
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Caminho de Ferro de Moçâmedes (CFM)
- Train
- CFM weekly express, restaurant & multimedia cars
- Countries
- Angola
- In service since
- 1961
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Angola’s third great trunk climbs from the desert port of Namibe over the Serra da Chela to Menongue — 756 rebuilt km, with a weekly express since December 2023.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2152051 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 54 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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