Classic route
La Gazelle
Brazzaville → Pointe-Noire · Republic of the Congo
La Gazelle in pictures
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- Distance
- 510 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 16 h
- Average speed
- 32 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- CFCO
- Train
- Korean-built air-con express
- Countries
- Republic of the Congo
- In service since
- 1934
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Silenced by war in the Pool, rolling again since 2023: the Congo-Océan line dives through the Mayombe forest to the Atlantic at Pointe-Noire.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1789163 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 129 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 36 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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