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Hello Tim welcome to the Railway Forum. I worked the line between the boarder town of Villa De Minica in Mozambique to Umtali in Rhodesia (now Matire, Zimbabwe), and between Umtali and Headlands. There used to be 16th class Beyer-Garratt's working that section of the line, but it was all diesel by the time I was posted there in 1968, from the Victoria Falls section. I learned to fire on Garratt's and drove them for a short time before being transferred to Umtali. I left Rhodesia in 1969 for the UK. Not sorry when I saw what happened to the country and its ordinary people. The line between Machipanda (near Villa De Minica) and Umtali was known as Christmas Pass and there was a 200m climb between the two stations which were about 4.26 miles apart as the crow fly's. (There was also a road called Christmas Pass just out side Umtali)
The Google Earth address for Matire is 18 Degrees 59mins 75sec's South, and 32 Degrees 39mins 48.30sec's E
The Google Earth address for Machipanda is 18 Degrees 59mins 33.86secs S, and 32 Degrees 43mins and 39.52secs E
If you follower the line on from Matire towards Harare, you will see Headlands about 2/3 of the way.