Classic route
Tanzania SGR
Dar es Salaam → Dodoma · Tanzania
- Distance
- 460 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 42 min
- Average speed
- 124 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Tanzania Railways Corporation
- Train
- CRRC EMU & loco-hauled sets
- Countries
- Tanzania
- In service since
- 2024
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
East Africa’s first electric railway: 160 km/h from Dar’s Indian Ocean humidity to the capital in under four hours, opened 2024 and already packed.
How this line was checked
- The 445 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: 99.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Tanzania Railways Corporation — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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