Night train route
Shosholoza Meyl Komati
Johannesburg → Komatipoort · South Africa
The old Delagoa Bay line to the Mozambique border, out through Pretoria and Witbank and down the escarpment past Nelspruit to the lowveld, overnight in a little over twelve hours.
Stations
- 0 kmJohannesburg Park +5
- 291 kmeMakhazeni
- 533 kmKomatipoort
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 5419780 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 78 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 21 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 Komati?
The Shosholoza Meyl Komati runs 539 km from Johannesburg to Komatipoort.
How long does the Shosholoza Meyl Komati take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 12 h 28 min for the 539 km. That is an average of 43 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Shosholoza Meyl Komati?
Shosholoza Meyl (PRASA), with PRASA sleeper & sitter coaches.
How old is the Shosholoza Meyl Komati?
The line has been in service since 1894. 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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