Night train route
Baghdad–Basra Night Train
Baghdad → Basra · Iraq
- Distance
- 550 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h 30 min
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Iraqi Republic Railways
- Train
- CSR sleeper DMU
- Countries
- Iraq
- In service since
- 2014
Iraq back on rails — since 2014 a Chinese-built sleeper DMU hums south past Babylon and the Euphrates towns, Baghdad to Basra by breakfast.
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