Classic route
Addis–Djibouti Railway
Addis Ababa → Djibouti · Ethiopia · Djibouti
Addis–Djibouti Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 756 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 12 h
- Average speed
- 63 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- EDR
- Train
- Electric SGR sets
- Countries
- Ethiopia, Djibouti
- In service since
- 2018
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Africa’s first fully electrified cross-border railway runs from the Ethiopian highlands to the Red Sea in a day.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6281977 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 28 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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