The Benguela Railway (Portuguese: Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB)) is a Cape gauge railway line that runs through Angola from west to east, being the largest and most important railway line in the country. It also connects to Tenke in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and to the Cape to Cairo Railway (connecting the city of Kindu (DRC) to the city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa).
The line terminates at the port of Lobito on the Atlantic coast, from where Angola exports a wide variety of products, including minerals (from the Copperbelt region), food, industrial components and livestock.[1]
The section from Lobito to Luau is run by the Empresa do Caminho de Ferro de Benguela-E.P.[2] It crosses the Luao River, which lies on the border, to Dilolo (DRC). From there to Tenke, the railway is operated by the Société nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo.
^Angola to launch concession for Benguela Railway. International Railway Journal. August 25, 2021.
^Empresa Archived 19 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Caminho de Ferro de Benguela-E.P.. 2019.
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Congo, there is an interconnection of the Cape-Cairo Railway with the Katanga-Benguelarailway linking it to the port of Lobito in Angola, on the Atlantic...
continued to a mine at the Cunhangamua river Benguela line junction Proposed short cut line due 2012 BenguelaRailway (CFB) Luacano junction to Zambia Jimbe...
undertook mining in the Katanga portion of the copperbelt, and the Benguelarailway, which provided a rail link across Angola to the Atlantic Ocean. Belgian...
on the BenguelaRailway, and raised in Chilesso, in the same province. Savimbi's father, Lote, was a stationmaster on Angola's Benguelarailway line and...
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Namibe Province, Angola on 22 September 1994. A freight train of the Benguelarailway derailed due to malfunctioning brakes and crashed into a 10 metres...
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attacking UNITA later that month from Luena towards Cazombo along the BenguelaRailway in a military operation named Congresso II, taking Cazombo on 18 September...
species for forestry in Latin America. Angola In the East of Angola, the Benguelarailway company created eucalyptus plantations for firing its steam locomotives...
of the slave trade and, more importantly, the construction of the BenguelaRailway in 1904, and came to an end shortly after 1910. In the following years...
military installation of the Canadian forces Caminho de Ferro de Benguela, railway in Angola Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District Cipher...
class). All three main railways in Angola used Garratts. The largest user was the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge Caminho de Ferro de Benguela. Forty-eight were...
trains from passing through the Benguelarailway at Teixeira de Sousa on the border with Zambia. UNITA derailed the railway twice in 1967, angering the Zambian...
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