🇲🇬 Operator
Train routes operated by Madarail
2 routes · classic 1 · scenic 1
Madarail runs 2 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 402 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Dia Tsara at 249 km; the fastest is the Dia Tsara, running up to 40 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1913.
The company itself dates to 2002, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from Madarail's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q3275422 ↗
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- 2
- Total length
- 402 km
- Countries
- Madagascar
- Fastest
- Dia Tsara · 40 km/h
- Longest
- Dia Tsara · 249 km
- Oldest line here
- 1913
- Company founded
- 2002
- Type
- railway company
Classic (1)
- Dia Tsara
Madagascar’s east-coast revival of 2023: once a week, twelve hours from Moramanga through rainforest gorges to the Pangalanes shore and Toamasina.
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Scenic (1)
- Trans Lémurie Express
Reopened in December 2023 after ~30 years shut by cyclone damage, its rosewood-trimmed cars climb through the highlands to the spa town of Antsirabe.
Wikipedia (FR) ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Madarail run?
2 of the routes in this atlas are Madarail services, covering 402 km across 1 country (Madagascar). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Madarail train?
The Dia Tsara, Moramanga to Toamasina, at up to 40 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 12 h over 249 km.
Does Madarail run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 2 Madarail routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Madarail founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2002, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1913 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Madarail runs in
- 🇲🇬 Train routes in Madagascar 3 routes