Classic route
Ferrocarril Ezequiel Zamora
Caracas → Cúa · Venezuela
- Distance
- 41 km
- Fastest time
- 31 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- IFE
- Train
- CAF electric multiple unit
- Countries
- Venezuela
- In service since
- 2006
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Venezuela’s flagship modern railway bores through long mountain tunnels at 120 km/h to link Caracas with the Tuy-valley town of Cúa in just 31 minutes.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 28 m from it
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