Classic route
Tren Francés
Havana → Santiago de Cuba · Cuba
Tren Francés in pictures
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- Distance
- 854 km
- Fastest time
- 15 h
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Ferrocarriles de Cuba
- Train
- CRRC coaches · diesel
- Countries
- Cuba
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Named for the ex-French TEE coaches France sold Cuba in 2000; Chinese-built cars now run this 854 km island-spanning line, often only every few days.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6520980 — 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 5 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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