Classic route
Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Karoo
Johannesburg → Cape Town · South Africa
- Distance
- 1,530 km
- Fastest time
- 27 h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Shosholoza Meyl (PRASA)
- Train
- Class 6E electric & diesel with sleeper cars
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 1892
The classic Trans-Karoo run — a night and a day across the semi-desert heart of South Africa from the Highveld gold city down to Table Bay.
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