Night train route
Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal
Johannesburg → Durban · South Africa
Down the Natal main line overnight: out of Johannesburg at half past eight, over the Drakensberg escarpment in the dark, into Durban and the Indian Ocean at seven.
Stations
- 0 kmJohannesburg Park Station +5
- 14 kmGermiston +1
- 171 kmStanderton
- 316 kmNewcastle
- 437 kmuMnambithi
- 613 kmPietermaritzburg
- 715 kmDurban
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 951491 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 91 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 24 m from it
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal?
The Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal runs 724 km from Johannesburg to Durban.
How long does the Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 10 h 30 min for the 724 km. That is an average of 69 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal?
Shosholoza Meyl (PRASA), with PRASA sleeper & sitter coaches.
How old is the Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Natal?
The line has been in service since 1896. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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