Classic route
AFE Tacuarembó–Rivera
Tacuarembó → Rivera · Uruguay
AFE Tacuarembó–Rivera in pictures
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- Distance
- 130 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- AFE
- Train
- Y1 railcar (ex-SJ)
- Countries
- Uruguay
- In service since
- 1892
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Uruguay’s last passenger train. Swedish-built Y1 railcars rattle five days a week through the northern hills to the Brazilian border at Rivera.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9205334 — 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
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