Classic route
Transgabonais
Libreville → Franceville · Gabon
Transgabonais in pictures
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- Distance
- 648 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h
- Average speed
- 46 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- SETRAG
- Train
- SETRAG express with couchettes
- Countries
- Gabon
- In service since
- 1986
- Riders per year
- ≈ 248k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Gabon’s only passenger railway climbs from the Atlantic at Owendo through equatorial rainforest past Lopé National Park to Franceville, running largely overnight.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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