Malanje – The Luanda Railway (CFL), linking Angola’s capital city to northern Malanje province, under rehabilitation since 2005, will be ready to receive an experimental trip of a cargo train in two months time.

This was announced Wednesday in northern Malanje province by the vice-minister of Transports for Railways, José João Kuvingua.  

 
The official was speaking to the press at the  end of the second experimental trip on the CFL 424-kilometre (Luanda-Malanje) route.

The trip was intended to check the inconformities detected during the first experimental journey of July 27, by technicians of the company in charge of the works and CFL.

According to José João Kuvíngua, levelling of the rails and regulation of the ballast have been done up to Dondo, northern Kwanza Norte province, only left the stretch from the district of  Cacuso to Malanje, lacking the signs and communication means.

 
The deputy minister said he was satisfied with what he saw, adding the works reflect the Government’s expectations about the rehabilitation and modernisation of the railway.

In the second experimental trip, the CFL team visited the stations of Catete, Barraca, Zenza do Itombe, Ndalahui, Luinha, Canhoca, Ndalatando, Lucala, Cacuso, Matete, rebuilt under the programme of rehabilitation and modernisation of infrastructures destroyed during the armed conflict.

 
Members of CFL board, workers, police officers, contractors and guests comprised the delegation that travelled from Luanda to Malanje.