Classic route
Sitarail Voyageurs
Ouagadougou → Bobo-Dioulasso · Burkina Faso
- Distance
- 340 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h
- Average speed
- 43 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- Sitarail (AGL)
- Train
- Sitarail coaches · GL30 diesel
- Countries
- Burkina Faso
- In service since
- 1954
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The lone survivor of the once-famous Abidjan–Ouagadougou train: a weekly Burkina-only service revived in November 2023 between the two biggest cities.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8530177 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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