Classic route
Kampala–Mukono commuter
Kampala → Mukono · Uganda
- Distance
- 27 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 23 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Uganda Railways
- Train
- URC diesel-hauled coaches
- Countries
- Uganda
- In service since
- 2024
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Revived in December 2024 on the century-old metre-gauge ’Lunatic Line,’ it beats Kampala’s notorious gridlock into the city for a few thousand shillings.
How this line was checked
- The 11 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 14620665 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 90% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 2 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Uganda Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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