Night train route
Shosholoza Meyl Komati
Johannesburg → Komatipoort · South Africa
- Distance
- 539 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 28 min
- Average speed
- 43 km/h
- Operator
- Shosholoza Meyl (PRASA)
- Train
- PRASA sleeper & sitter coaches
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 1894
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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