Night train route
Erdenet Railway
Ulaanbaatar → Erdenet · Mongolia
Erdenet Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 390 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 34 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Ulaanbaatar Railway
- Train
- 2TE116 · sleeper
- Countries
- Mongolia
- In service since
- 1977
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Overnight sleeper north from the capital to the Soviet-built copper city of Erdenet, branching off the Trans-Mongolian near Darkhan.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
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