Classic route
Al Atlas Oriental
Fez → Oujda · Morocco
Al Atlas Oriental in pictures
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- Distance
- 320 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 58 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- ONCF
- Train
- ONCF intercity
- Countries
- Morocco
- In service since
- 1934
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The slow ’Oriental’ run passes the Taza Gap between the Rif and Middle Atlas to reach Oujda on the sealed Algerian frontier.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3375531 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 60 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 17 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ONCF — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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