Classic route
SNCFT Grandes Lignes
Tunis → Sfax · Tunisia
SNCFT Grandes Lignes in pictures
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- Distance
- 270 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SNCFT
- Train
- Air-conditioned express
- Countries
- Tunisia
- In service since
- 1912
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Tunisia’s metre-gauge trunk line runs frequent air-conditioned expresses down the Sahel coast past the great Roman amphitheatre of El Jem to Sfax.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2718393 — 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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCFT — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in AR) ↗
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