Mountain route
Trem do Corcovado
Rio de Janeiro → Corcovado · Brazil
Trem do Corcovado in pictures
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- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Fastest time
- 20 min
- Average speed
- 11 km/h
- Top speed
- 15 km/h
- Operator
- Trem do Corcovado
- Train
- Swiss rack EMU
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1884
- Riders per year
- ≈ 600k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Brazil’s first electrified railway (1884): a rack train climbing 700 m through Tijuca rainforest to Christ the Redeemer above Rio.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 933653 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trem do Corcovado — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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