Scenic route
Fianarantsoa–Côte Est (FCE)
Fianarantsoa → Manakara · Madagascar
Fianarantsoa–Côte Est (FCE) in pictures
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- Distance
- 163 km
- Fastest time
- 10 h
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- FCE
- Train
- Mixed passenger/freight coaches
- Countries
- Madagascar
- In service since
- 1936
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Madagascar’s rainforest lifeline: 67 bridges and 48 tunnels down a 1,100 m escarpment past waterfalls; villages survive by loading bananas and coffee onto the train.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8503520 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 39 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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