Scenic route
Trans Lémurie Express
Antananarivo → Antsirabe · Madagascar
Trans Lémurie Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 153 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h
- Average speed
- 31 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Madarail
- Train
- Madarail "Rosewood Class" coaches
- Countries
- Madagascar
- In service since
- 1923
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Reopened in December 2023 after ~30 years shut by cyclone damage, its rosewood-trimmed cars climb through the highlands to the spa town of Antsirabe.
How this line was checked
- The 153 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 9332203 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Madarail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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