Night train route
Nile Valley Sleeper
Cairo → Aswan · Egypt
Overnight up the Nile past Luxor’s temples: wake to feluccas and the First Cataract at Aswan.
Stations
- 0 kmRamses Station
- 14 kmGiza Suburbs
- 125 kmBeni Suef
- 248 kmAl-Minya
- 376 kmAsyut
- 468 kmSohag
- 610 kmQena
- 672 kmLuxor
- 880 kmAswan Train Station
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 280689 — 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 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Watania Sleeping Trains — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Nile Valley Sleeper?
The Nile Valley Sleeper runs 879 km from Cairo to Aswan.
How long does the Nile Valley Sleeper take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 13 h for the 879 km. That is an average of 68 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Nile Valley Sleeper?
ENR and Watania, with Watania sleeping cars.
How old is the Nile Valley Sleeper?
The line has been in service since 1898. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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