Night train route
Reunification Express
Hanoi → Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam
Reunification Express in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 1,726 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 33 h
- Average speed
- 52 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Vietnam Railways
- Train
- SE sleeper
- Countries
- Vietnam
- In service since
- 1936
- Runs
- 4–6× daily each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Two nights along the South China Sea: the Hải Vân Pass clings to cliffs the road never dared.
The French completed their Transindochinois in 1936; four decades and several wars later the rebuilt line reopened end to end in 1976 as the young republic’s proudest symbol. From a soft-sleeper berth the whole country files past at arm’s length. Red River paddies, Ninh Bình’s karst towers, buffalo carts, the lagoon at Lăng Cô and long curves of empty beach below Nha Trang. Slow, rattling and endlessly sociable, it is still the definitive way to take Vietnam’s measure.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2709148 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 86 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 21 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Vietnam Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Red River delta paddies
- Ninh Bình karst
- Huế’s imperial citadel
- Lăng Cô lagoon
- Nha Trang coastline
- Chăm towers at Tháp Chàm
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