Heritage route
Hue–Da Nang Heritage Train
Hue → Da Nang · Vietnam
- Distance
- 103 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Vietnam Railways (DSVN)
- Train
- Restyled vintage coaches with saloon car (HD1–HD4)
- Countries
- Vietnam
- In service since
- 2024
- Runs
- 2× daily each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Launched in 2024 on the 1906 colonial mainline, it eases over the Hai Van Pass with clouds above and fishing fleets directly below the rails.
Vietnam Railways relaunched the Hue–Da Nang leg of the 1906 colonial mainline as a heritage service in March 2024, with saloon cars, live music and a ten-minute photo stop at Lang Co. The reward is the crawl over the Hai Van Pass, where the track clings to jungle cliffs between the clouds and the surf. It links the imperial capital with Da Nang in under three hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2709148 — 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: Vietnam Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
Along the way
- Perfume River farewell at Hue
- Cau Hai lagoon
- Lang Co beach and lagoon stop
- Hai Van Pass cliff curves
- Da Nang Bay descent
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