Classic route
Sena Line
Beira → Moatize · Mozambique
Sena Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 575 km
- Fastest time
- 20 h
- Average speed
- 29 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- CFM
- Train
- CFM diesel-hauled coaches
- Countries
- Mozambique
- In service since
- 1949
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A subsidised lifeline up the Zambezi valley, crossing the 3.7 km Dona Ana bridge, once the longest railway bridge in Africa, from the port of Beira to the Tete coalfields.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9420998 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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