🇹🇳 Operator
Train routes operated by SNCFT
3 routes · classic 2 · heritage 1
SNCFT runs 3 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 670 km of railway across 2 countries. The longest is the Tunis–Annaba at 357 km; the fastest is the SNCFT Grandes Lignes, running up to 120 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1884. 1 of its routes crosses an international border.
The company itself dates to 1956, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from SNCFT'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. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q2297197 ↗
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- 3
- Total length
- 670 km
- Countries
- Tunisia, Algeria
- Longest
- Tunis–Annaba · 357 km
- Oldest line here
- 1884
- Company founded
- 1956
- Type
- railway company
- Fastest
- SNCFT Grandes Lignes · 120 km/h
Classic (2)
- Tunis–Annaba
Tunis to Béja, Jendouba and Ghardimaou, then over the border to Souk Ahras and Annaba: the 1884 Bône-Guelma link, silent from 1995 until the first train ran again on 11 August 2024.
Wikipedia (FR) ↗ - SNCFT Grandes Lignes
Tunisia’s metre-gauge trunk line runs frequent air-conditioned expresses down the Sahel coast past the great Roman amphitheatre of El Jem to Sfax.
Wikipedia (AR) ↗
Heritage (1)
- Lézard Rouge
The Bey of Tunis’s 1910 saloon cars, freshly restored: creeping into the Selja gorge’s ochre cliffs, photo stops included, in phosphate country.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does SNCFT run?
3 of the routes in this atlas are SNCFT services, covering 670 km across 2 countries (Tunisia, Algeria). 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 SNCFT train?
The SNCFT Grandes Lignes, Tunis to Sfax, at up to 120 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 4 h 30 min over 270 km.
Does SNCFT run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 3 SNCFT routes listed here are daytime services.
When was SNCFT founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1956, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1884 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries SNCFT runs in
- 🇩🇿 Train routes in Algeria 4 routes
- 🇹🇳 Train routes in Tunisia 3 routes