Classic route
Madaraka Express
Nairobi → Mombasa · Kenya
Madaraka Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 472 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h
- Average speed
- 94 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Kenya Railways
- Train
- SGR coaches
- Countries
- Kenya
- In service since
- 2017
- Riders per year
- ≈ 2M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Kenya’s standard-gauge flagship crosses Tsavo on elevated spans built so elephants pass underneath.
How this line was checked
- The 473 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 7190306 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Kenya Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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