Scenic route
Eritrean Railway
Asmara → Massawa · Eritrea
- Distance
- 118 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- Eritrean Railway
- Train
- 1930s Ansaldo Mallet steam
- Countries
- Eritrea
- In service since
- 1911
Pre-war Italian Mallet steam locos still claw up 3.5% grades and switchbacks 2,300 m between the Red Sea and Asmara — one of the great colonial mountain railways.
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