Night train route
Benguela Railway Express
Lobito → Luau · Angola
- Distance
- 1,344 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 30 h
- Average speed
- 45 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- CFB
- Train
- CFB air-con sleeper express
- Countries
- Angola
- In service since
- 1929
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Atlantic surf to the Congolese border: the Chinese-rebuilt Benguela line’s weekly sleeper climbs 1,344 km through Huambo’s highlands to Luau.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1125202 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 77 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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