Night trains
Night trains from Pretoria
2 sleeper routes · South Africa
2 night trains serve Pretoria in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Cape Town, Victoria Falls. The longest is the The Blue Train at 1,600 km (≈ 31 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1946. Board in the evening, wake up 1,600 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
The Blue Train
Pretoria → Cape Town · 1,600 km · ≈ 31 h · Transnet · Luxury sleeper stock
A five-star hotel on rails — butlers, marble bathrooms and the Karoo semi-desert rolling past for 1,600 km.
Rovos Rail
Pretoria → Victoria Falls · 1,600 km · ≈ 3 days · Rovos Rail · Restored Edwardian stock
“The Pride of Africa” — teak-panelled suites through the bushveld to the smoke that thunders.
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