Classic route
Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Karoo
Johannesburg → Cape Town · South Africa
Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Karoo in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,530 km
- Fastest time
- 27 h
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Shosholoza Meyl (PRASA)
- Train
- Class 6E electric & diesel with sleeper cars
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 1892
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The classic Trans-Karoo run: a night and a day across the semi-desert heart of South Africa from the Highveld gold city down to Table Bay.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 950176 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 36 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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