Classic route
Matadi–Kinshasa
Matadi → Kinshasa · DR Congo
Matadi–Kinshasa in pictures
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- Distance
- 366 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h
- Average speed
- 46 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- SCTP
- Train
- KiHa 183 railcars (ex-JR Hokkaido)
- Countries
- DR Congo
- In service since
- 1898
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Reopened in September 2025 after a five-year landslide closure, now worked at weekends by KiHa 183 railcars shipped from Japan, relinking Kinshasa to its Atlantic port.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 401053 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 64 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 13 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SCTP — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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