Classic route
Port Sudan–Atbara
Port Sudan → Atbara · Sudan
Port Sudan–Atbara in pictures
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- Distance
- 474 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h
- Average speed
- 40 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Sudan Railways
- Train
- SRC diesel & coaches
- Countries
- Sudan
- In service since
- 1906
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The first railway to reopen after Sudan’s civil war (December 2024): a fortnightly desert lifeline from the Red Sea across Nubian scrub to the Nile junction at Atbara.
How this line was checked
- The 476 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8275854 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, 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: Sudan Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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