Heritage route
Da Lat Railway
Da Lat → Trai Mat · Vietnam
- Distance
- 7 km
- Fastest time
- 25 min
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- Vietnam Railways
- Train
- heritage railcar
- Countries
- Vietnam
- In service since
- 1932
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The last working stub of the French cog railway to Da Lat: 7 km of heritage track from a 1938 Art Deco station to Trại Mát.
How this line was checked
- The 6 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 3531754 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 84.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 6 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Vietnam Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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