Goba railway

Goba railway
Overview
StatusOperational
Termini
Service
TypeCape gauge
Operator(s)CFM and ESR
History
Opened1912
Technical
Line length466.8 km (290.1 mi)
Track gauge1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

Goba railway,[1] also called Swaziland-Maputo railway and Matsapha-Maputo railway, is a railway that connects the city of Maputo, Mozambique, to the city from Matsapha, in Eswatini. It is 466.8 km long, in a 1067 mm gauge.[2]

On the Mozambican stretch, between Maputo and Goba, the managing company is Mozambique Ports and Railways (CFM);[1] on the Eswatinean (swazi) stretch, between the cities of Mlawula and Matsapha, the administration is done by the company Eswatini Railways (ESR).[3]

Its main maritime logistics facility is the port of Maputo.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Linha de Goba". CFM. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. ^ Mozambique Logistics Infrastructure: Mozambique Railway Assessment Archived 2021-08-02 at the Wayback Machine. Atlassian Confluence. 10 de dezembro de 2018.
  3. ^ Eswatini rail network Archived 2020-02-03 at the Wayback Machine. Eswatini Railways. 2017.