Caminhos de Ferro Angolanos | Angola's Railroads

[evany]

excelente

[skytrax]

Comboio volta apitar no Huambo dentro de 60 dias

Huambo - O comboio do caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB), volta a apitar definitivamente na província do Huambo dentro de 60 dias, depois de 27 anos de paralisação, anunciou hoje, nesta cidade, o ministro dos Transportes, Augusto da Silva Tomás.

Augusto Tomás anunciou o facto no final da sua viagem de comboio vindo da província de Benguela, onde foi fiscalizar o grau de execução das obras realizadas ao longo da linha-férrea.

“Vamos trabalhar para completar tudo o que é necessário, corrigir o que se pode e criar condições para que dentro de 60 dias o mais tardar, o comboio volte a apitar no Huambo de forma definitiva e em Setembro possa chegar a província do Bié para devolver a
alegria a população desta região”, destacou.

O governante referiu que o país vive um ciclo de reconstrução, reconciliação e de paz, pois tudo o que no passado era um sonho começa a ser transformado em realidade.

Afirmou que as obras foram acompanhadas pela fiscalização, seguiram as regras estabelecidas internacionalmente e os prazos foram na medida do possível respeitados.

“Chegou o momento do povo angolano em particular o das províncias do Huambo, Bié e Moxico voltarem a sorrir como no passado".

Por seu turno, o governador da província do Huambo, Fernando Faustino Muteka, lançou um repto aos homens de negócios pois que, com o comboio a funcionar haverá maior facilidade de movimentação das mercadorias e a qualidade de vida da população vai
melhorar.

Faustino Muteka destacou que, o reinício da circulação do comboio vai permitir a criação de novos postos de trabalho, a chegada da mercadoria de forma segura ao mesmo tempo que vai contribuir para o ressurgimento do sector industrial numa altura que está em fase de conclusão a barragem hidroeléctrica do Ngove.

A chegada do comboio experimental a estação da cidade do Huambo foi testemunhada por milhares de cidadãos, membros do executivo local, representantes de partidos políticos e entidades religiosas.

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[Barragon]

[agostinho]

Originally Posted by Barragon

Não é dos transportes que me fascine tanto, mas não me importava de um dia ser um cobrador ou maquinista aqui na Europa ou em Angola caso o mesmo ganhe as dimensões e qualidades dos mesmos por aquí

[èđđeůx]

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

new trains and state of the art train service in Angola...come on this is on par with Western countries, no hidding behind them...and again nothing of that is shown on Western TV...Oh , I forgot their media is "free" and "investigative"...so go on and show broken down railways across Africa and fooling the people that only this can and is Africa



on-bord service






O comboio já apita

who's the manufacturer of these trains?

[kiligoland]

wow, damn i will ride these trains next time i visit angola

[Matthias Offodile]

train service in Angola

1 class coaches







2 class coaches



Really, I haven´t seen such modern and orderly train service anywhere in Africa (outside South Africa)

[evany]

hummm

[Matthias Offodile]

Reconstruction of Moçâmedes railroad in Angola 70 pct concluded

July 29th, 2011 News



Luanda, Angola, 29 July – Work to rebuild Angola’s Moçâmedes railroad, which began in 2006 and due to end in December, is over two third complete, the chairman of the company that manages the facility, Daniel Quipaxe said Thursday.

At the end of a visit by the governor of Huíla province, Isaac dos Santos, to work being carried out on the railway stations of Lubango and the work to compact the platforms at Arimba da Chanja stations, Quipaxe gave assurances that 680 kilometres of a total 970 kilometres of the line were concluded, between Namibe (the current name of Moçâmedes) and Menongue in the province of Cuando Cubango.

China is responsible for most of the investment in the railroad, which has been funded through a US$2 billion credit line provided by the Export Import Bank.

India is also involved in funding the railroad.

In relation to reconstruction work on the railway stations, the manager said that the stations built in the municipalities of Matala, Jamba, Kuvango and Menongue were due to be delivered in August and the remainder in December.

Quipaxe also said that the rail bridge over the Giraúl River, in Namibe province, which was recently destroyed by floods, would be finished in November. (macauhub)

Good

[abesha]

WOW those trains are luxurious!!

[skytrax]

But they are slow..

[Harrys]

How much slow ?

[Matthias Offodile]

Originally Posted by skytrax

But they are slow..

They might be slow by comparing them with French, Japanese or German high-tech trains....but Angola´s railways are by far the best outside South Africa.

and who knows maybe someday there will be a high-speed train in Angola...in my yes, it is not the priority of the country at its current stage of development to take a ride 500km/h

Modern schools, universities, hospitals highways, entire and COMPLETE slum demolishment (which is ongoing), heavily subsidized housing for the poor, tons of jobs for the youth, modern and livable cities with a great urban lifestyle and a diversified economy should be top on the agenda.

[Kizaca]

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I don't think they are very slow...I rode in one of them form Viana to Porto de Luanda only 30 minutes with a lot of stoppages. They are ok! It would be dumb to build high speed train in Angola at this stage. Maybe in 15 years.

[agostinho]

Originally Posted by Kizaca

^

I don't think they are very slow...I rode in one of them form Viana to Porto de Luanda only 30 minutes with a lot of stoppages. They are ok! It would be dumb to build high speed train in Angola at this stage. Maybe in 15 years.

Quanto deve custar um bilhete de Viana ao Porto de Luanda ou vice versa, caro kizaka?
Se tdo correr bem, estarei em setembro ou outubro em angola e gostaria tb de experimentar o mesmo nem que seja somente bilhete de ida.

[popa1980]

these are limited in speed by being narrow gauge. They should have built standard gauge like the rest of Africa is doing now.

[alama]

Well, Popa angola isn't the 'rest of africa' , fortunately.

[popa1980]

Originally Posted by alama

Well, Popa angola isn't the 'rest of africa' , fortunately.

yeah, how fortunate that they have spent a lot of money building a system that other African nations are getting rid off. Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania etc etc are all investing in fast standard gauge networks but I guess they are not so fortunate

[Blue sun]

Originally Posted by popa1980

yeah, how fortunate that they have spent a lot of money building a system that other African nations are getting rid off. Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania etc etc are all investing in fast standard gauge networks but I guess they are not so fortunate

Angola will do whats best for Angola.

[Kizaca]

Originally Posted by popa1980

yeah, how fortunate that they have spent a lot of money building a system that other African nations are getting rid off. Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania etc etc are all investing in fast standard gauge networks but I guess they are not so fortunate

Get over it! You always raise this point. Regardless of the validity of your comment, the reality is that they are being built in a non-standard gauge. So no crying over spilled milk, right?