Classic route
Dushanbe–Kulob Express
Dushanbe → Kulob · Tajikistan
- Distance
- 270 km
- Fastest time
- 7 h
- Average speed
- 39 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Tajik Railways
- Train
- TE33A · coaches
- Countries
- Tajikistan
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A weekly train made possible only in 2016, when a Chinese-built link finally joined Dushanbe to Tajikistan’s once-isolated southern railway.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 6771235 (120 km), relation 6771236 (133 km) — 253 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
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