Night train route
Oran–Béchar Night Train
Oran → Béchar · Algeria
- Distance
- 675 km
- Fastest time
- ~8 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- SNTF
- Train
- SNTF couchette coaches
- Countries
- Algeria
- In service since
- 1906
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Algeria’s Sahara sleeper, revived in December 2024: couchettes leave Oran at nightfall and reach Béchar at the Saoura’s edge by sunrise.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1431856 (637 km), relation 20367178 (156 km) — 672 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNTF — 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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