Night trains
Night trains from Johannesburg
3 sleeper routes · South Africa
3 night trains serve Johannesburg in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to East London, Durban, Komatipoort. The longest is the Shosholoza Meyl at 1,000 km (20 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1894. Board in the evening, wake up 1,000 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Shosholoza Meyl
The last affordable long-distance sleeper in South Africa: an overnight economy train across the Free State Highveld and Stormberg to the Indian Ocean at East London.
Wikipedia ↗ - Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal
Down the Natal main line overnight: out of Johannesburg at half past eight, over the Drakensberg escarpment in the dark, into Durban and the Indian Ocean at seven.
- Shosholoza Meyl Komati
The old Delagoa Bay line to the Mozambique border, out through Pretoria and Witbank and down the escarpment past Nelspruit to the lowveld, overnight in a little over twelve hours.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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