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3:21 CAT | 21 Sep 2020
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All stations on the Beira-Machipanda railway line will be rehabilitated so that passenger services resume in 2022, when works are expected to be completed, weekly newspaper Domingo reports.
Mozambique Ports and Railwayss CFM), says works on Dondo station, in Sofala, will start before the end of September.
The resumption of passenger trains on the 317 km railway line between the port city of Beira and the Republic of Zimbabwe falls within the scope of the CFM’s social responsibility programme, adds the same source.
Passenger trains on the line were suspended in 1987 because of the worsening of the 16-year war and the advanced degradation of the track, which caused frequent derailments. Circulation on the Beira-Nhamatanda section was suspended in 1988.
Road transport is now the only alternative to the Beira-Machipanda rail link, but is more expensive and has more accidents.
Sancho Quipiço Júnior, manager of the Machipanda Line Reconstruction Brigade, says the acquisition of locomotives, wagons and carriages for the reintroduction of passenger services between Beira and Machipanda is underway.
Source: Jornal Domingo
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