Classic route
Talgo Intercity
Cairo → Alexandria · Egypt
Talgo Intercity in pictures
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- Distance
- 208 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 83 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Egyptian National Railways (ENR)
- Train
- Talgo 230
- Countries
- Egypt
- In service since
- 1856
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Cairo–Alexandria is the oldest railway in Africa and the Middle East (1854–56); since December 2022 it has been worked by Spain’s Talgo 230 trainsets.
How this line was checked
- The 87 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5300629 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Egyptian National Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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