Heritage route
Expresso Turístico
São Paulo (Luz) → Paranapiacaba · Brazil
Expresso Turístico in pictures
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- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 27 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- CPTM
- Train
- ALCO RS-3 (1952) + Budd-Mafersa cars
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 2009
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1952 ALCO diesel and 1960s Budd cars leave Luz station on weekends for Paranapiacaba, the fog-wrapped English railway village at the rim of the Serra do Mar.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20393821 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: CPTM — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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