Classic route
Abuja–Kaduna Train Service
Abuja → Kaduna · Nigeria
Abuja–Kaduna Train Service in pictures
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- Distance
- 186 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h
- Average speed
- 62 km/h
- Top speed
- 150 km/h
- Operator
- Nigerian Railway Corporation
- Train
- CRRC standard-gauge express
- Countries
- Nigeria
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Nigeria’s first standard-gauge railway (2016) links the capital to Kaduna’s Rigasa terminus, far safer than the kidnap-plagued expressway.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6441947 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Nigerian Railway Corporation — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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