Night train route
Shosholoza Meyl
Johannesburg → East London · South Africa
- Distance
- 1,000 km
- Fastest time
- 20 h
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- PRASA
- Train
- PRASA sleeper & sitter coaches
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 1997
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The last affordable long-distance sleeper in South Africa: an overnight economy train across the Free State Highveld and Stormberg to the Indian Ocean at East London.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 952040 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 85 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 19 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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