Classic route
Yangon Circular Railway
Yangon → Yangon · Myanmar
Yangon Circular Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 46 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Myanma Railways
- Train
- RBE railcars (ex-JR)
- Countries
- Myanmar
- In service since
- 1954
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 46 km loop through Yangon life. Monks, hawkers and vegetable baskets share the ex-Japanese railcars, three unhurried hours for pocket change.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 8.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 613 m); the longest stretch away from it is 17.5 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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