Night train route
The Blue Train
Pretoria → Cape Town · South Africa
- Distance
- 1,600 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 31 h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Transnet
- Train
- Luxury sleeper stock
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 1946
A five-star hotel on rails — butlers, marble bathrooms and the Karoo semi-desert rolling past for 1,600 km.
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