Classic route
Dia Tsara
Moramanga → Toamasina · Madagascar
- Distance
- 249 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h
- Average speed
- 21 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Madarail
- Train
- Madarail diesel + coaches
- Countries
- Madagascar
- In service since
- 1913
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Madagascar’s east-coast revival of 2023: once a week, twelve hours from Moramanga through rainforest gorges to the Pangalanes shore and Toamasina.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8503488 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 57 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 21 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Madarail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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