Night train route
Victoria Falls Overnight
Bulawayo → Victoria Falls · Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls Overnight in pictures
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- Distance
- 472 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 13 h
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- National Railways of Zimbabwe
- Train
- NRZ loco-hauled coaches
- Countries
- Zimbabwe
- In service since
- 1904
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Revived in October 2025: the 1904 line to the Falls leaves Bulawayo at dusk, skirts Hwange’s elephant country and arrives with the spray in sight.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2276102 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 49 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: National Railways of Zimbabwe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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