Scenic route
Serra Verde Express
Curitiba → Morretes · Brazil
- Distance
- 110 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Average speed
- 28 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Serra Verde Express
- Train
- Tourist consist
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1885
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Down the Serra do Mar through Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest: an 1885 line of viaducts pinned to green cliffs.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2599219 (68 km), relation 9113523 (100 km) — 109 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Serra Verde Express — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in PT) ↗
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