Heritage route
Tren del Fin del Mundo
Ushuaia → Tierra del Fuego National Park · Argentina
- Distance
- 7 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Average speed
- 8 km/h
- Top speed
- 15 km/h
- Operator
- Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino
- Train
- 500 mm-gauge steam
- Countries
- Argentina
- In service since
- 1909
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The southernmost railway on Earth: a 500 mm steam line laid by Ushuaia’s prison labourers in 1909, now puffing into Tierra del Fuego National Park.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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