Classic route
Trem Vitória a Minas
Vitória → Belo Horizonte · Brazil
Trem Vitória a Minas in pictures
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- Distance
- 664 km
- Fastest time
- 13 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 49 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Vale
- Train
- Vale passenger consist
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1904
- Riders per year
- ≈ 1M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Brazil’s busiest long-distance train: daily along the Rio Doce, sharing metre-gauge tracks with 200-plus-wagon iron-ore trains.
How this line was checked
- The 648 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 7754552 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 128 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 40 m); the longest stretch away from it is 11.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Vale — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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