Night train route
Transcamerounais
Yaoundé → Ngaoundéré · Cameroon
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Cameroon’s nightly lifeline: couchettes climb from Yaoundé’s hills to the Adamawa Plateau, railhead for the country’s wild north.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8503527 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 86 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 22 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Camrail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Transcamerounais?
The Transcamerounais runs 622 km from Yaoundé to Ngaoundéré.
How long does the Transcamerounais take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 12 h 10 min for the 622 km. That is an average of 51 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 70 km/h.
Who runs the Transcamerounais?
Camrail, with Train 191/192 couchette.
How old is the Transcamerounais?
The line has been in service since 1974. 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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