Night train route
Baghdad–Basra Night Train
Baghdad → Basra · Iraq
Baghdad–Basra Night Train in pictures
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- Distance
- 550 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Iraqi Republic Railways
- Train
- CSR sleeper DMU
- Countries
- Iraq
- In service since
- 2014
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Iraq back on rails: since 2014 a Chinese-built sleeper DMU hums south past Babylon and the Euphrates towns, Baghdad to Basra by breakfast.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16880309 — 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: Iraqi Republic Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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