Night train route
Nile Valley Sleeper
Cairo → Aswan · Egypt
Nile Valley Sleeper in pictures




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- Distance
- 879 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 13 h
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- ENR · Watania
- Train
- Watania sleeping cars
- Countries
- Egypt
- In service since
- 1898
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Overnight up the Nile past Luxor’s temples: wake to feluccas and the First Cataract at Aswan.
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
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