Heritage route
Tren de la Sabana
Bogotá → Zipaquirá · Colombia
Tren de la Sabana in pictures
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- Distance
- 53 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h
- Average speed
- 27 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Turistren
- Train
- Steam-hauled heritage coaches
- Countries
- Colombia
- In service since
- 1992
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Weekend steam across the Bogotá savanna: brass-era locomotives and papayera bands rolling to Zipaquirá’s underground Salt Cathedral.
How this line was checked
- The 19 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8303118 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 7 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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