Heritage route
Campos do Jordão Railway
Pindamonhangaba → Campos do Jordão · Brazil
Campos do Jordão Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- EFCJ
- Train
- Historic electric railcars
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1914
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Brazil’s highest railway climbs the Serra da Mantiqueira to the mountain resort of Campos do Jordão at 1,743 m, a metre-gauge line electrified since the 1920s.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20393594 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: EFCJ — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in PT) ↗
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