Heritage route
Expresso Turístico
São Paulo (Luz) → Paranapiacaba · Brazil
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Expresso Turístico?
The Expresso Turístico runs 47 km from São Paulo (Luz) to Paranapiacaba.
How long does the Expresso Turístico take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 45 min for the 47 km. That is an average of 27 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 60 km/h.
Who runs the Expresso Turístico?
CPTM, with ALCO RS-3 (1952) + Budd-Mafersa cars.
How old is the Expresso Turístico?
The line has been in service since 2009. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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