Classic route
Royal Railway Southern Line
Phnom Penh → Sihanoukville · Cambodia
Royal Railway Southern Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 264 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 47 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Royal Railway
- Train
- Refurbished railcar sets
- Countries
- Cambodia
- In service since
- 1969
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Weekend trains on Cambodia’s 1960s line to the sea, revived in 2016: through Takeo and Kampot’s pepper country to Sihanoukville’s beaches.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17033173 — 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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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