Railway stations in Tanzania

Railway stations in Tanzania include:


 * Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway

Maps

 * UN Map - Tanga and Kidatu lines not shown.
 * Railways in southern Africa
 * Official map
 * UNHCR Map
 * Look for the MSN Map at the bottom of pages of many towns, or look for the Map Button at the top and scroll down the MSN map.

Tanzania Railways Corporation
( all gauge)

Central Line

 * 1) Dar es Salaam - ocean port - former national capital - 8 km from TAZARA line
 * 2) Ruvu (75m) - junction to Tanga line
 * 3) Morogoro (510m) - junction to north
 * 4) Kilosa (572m) - junction going south to TAZARA
 * 5) Gulwe (680m)
 * 6) Igandu (985m)
 * 7) Dodoma (1148m) - The national capital
 * 8) Manyoni (1244m) - junction going north to Singida
 * 9) Itigi (1306m)
 * 10) Ikungu (1289m)
 * 11) Tabora (1212m) - junction going north to Mwanza
 * 12) Kaliua (1112m) - junction going south to Mpanda
 * 13) Kigoma (775m) - terminal and port on Lake Tanganyika

Kidatu Line

 * 1) (Not shown on map)
 * 2) Kilosa (572m) - junction
 * 3) Kidatu (294m) - 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 (1212m) - junction
 * 2) Bukene (1188m)
 * 3) Isaka (1197m) - 'dry port' and proposed junction for lines to Rwanda and Burundi
 * 4) Shinyanga (1126m)
 * 5) Mwanza (1209m) - inland port on Lake Victoria

Mpanda Line

 * 1) Kaliua (1112m) - junction
 * 2) Mpanda (1074m) - branch terminus

Singida Line

 * 1) Manyoni (1244m) - junction
 * 2) Issuna (1423m)
 * 3) Ikungi (1532m)
 * 4) Puma
 * 5) Singida (1122m) - branch terminus

Link Line

 * 1) Morogoro (510m) - junction with Central Line
 * 2) Ruvu (75m)
 * 3) Kitonga (65m)
 * 4) Sadani (1m)
 * 5) Hale (184m) - junction
 * 6) Korogwe (301m) - junction with Tanga Line

Tanga line

 * 1) Tanga (1m) - ocean port
 * 2) Korogwe (301m) - junction to south
 * 3) Mkomazi (485m)
 * 4) Same (897m)
 * 5) Moshi (990m) - junction to north and Kenya
 * 6) Arusha (1254m) - soda ash mining

Proposed extensions

 * September 2007
 * 1) Arusha (1254m)
 * 2) Musoma (1172m) on Lake Victoria.


 * 1) Tanga
 * 2) Mwambani Bay


 * ( gauge)
 * 1) Tanga
 * 2) Singida
 * 3) 🇹🇿 Mutukula, Tanzania
 * 🇺🇬 Mutukula, Uganda
 * Kampala


 * (branch)
 * Mutukula
 * Musoma - Lake Victoria port

Standard Gauge

 * 1) Dar es Salaam
 * 2) Pugu (19 km)
 * 3) Soga (51 km)
 * 4) Ruvu (74 km) - junction on old line only.
 * 5) Freight Yard (93 km)
 * 6) Ngerengere (135 km)
 * 7) Morogoro (205 km) - end stage one - work started in April 2017.
 * 8) Dodoma - capital
 * 9) Makutupora - (336 km from previous station)
 * 10) Tabora - (294 km)
 * 11) Isaka - (133 km) - inland dry port
 * 12) Mwanza - (249 km) - 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 (1 m) - port for groundnut scheme
 * 2) Lindi (1 m) - potential port
 * 3) Nachingwea (380 m) groundnut scheme terminus
 * 4) Mchuchuma (____m) - coal
 * 5) Songea
 * 6) Liganga (1210 m) - 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 (137 m)
 * 3) Kisaki (292 m)
 * 4) Kidatu (294 m) - 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 (192 m)
 * 8) Lwipa
 * 9) Mbingu
 * 10) Mngeta
 * 11) Chita
 * 12) Mlimba
 * 13) Makambako
 * 14) Chimala
 * 15) Mbeya (1661 m) - workshops
 * 16) Mbozi
 * 17) Vwawa (1274 m)
 * 18) 🇹🇿 Tunduma, Tanzania (1301 m)
 * 🇹🇿 🇿🇲 - Tanzania / Zambian border
 * 🇿🇲 Mkushi, Zambia (1277 m)


 * Mbeya possible junction
 * Kasanga

Rehabilitation

 * North-South Corridor Project

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 (standard 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.