Classic route
Mauritania Iron Ore Train
Nouadhibou → Zouérat · Mauritania
- Distance
- 704 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 18 h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- SNIM
- Train
- SNIM ore consist + passenger coach
- Countries
- Mauritania
- In service since
- 1963
The world’s longest trains — up to 2.5 km of ore hoppers across the open Sahara, with a single battered passenger coach swaying at the back.
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