Luxury route
Desert Express
Windhoek → Swakopmund · Namibia
Desert Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 356 km
- Fastest time
- 19 h
- Average speed
- 19 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- TransNamib
- Train
- TransNamib lounge & sleeper cars, GE diesels
- Countries
- Namibia
- In service since
- 1998
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A slow luxury run from the highland capital down the escarpment to the Atlantic, with dune walks as the Namib shifts from gold to coastal fog.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2119375 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 28 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: TransNamib — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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