Classic route
Central Line
Dar es Salaam → Kigoma · Tanzania
Central Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,254 km
- Fastest time
- 38 h
- Average speed
- 33 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Tanzania Railways (TRC)
- Train
- TRC metre-gauge coaches, diesel-hauled
- Countries
- Tanzania
- In service since
- 1914
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The German-built Central Line of 1914, a metre-gauge marathon from the Indian Ocean across the plateau to Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika.
How this line was checked
- The 448 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 10133722 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 94.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 23 m); the longest stretch away from it is 8.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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