Egyptian Railways
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About Egyptian Railways
A railway journey is a convenient way to explore the country. No matter whether you are after a quintessentially old school experience with a slow long-haul train or a super modern highspeed express, a train travel allows you to get to your destination in style and enjoy the trip at its most. Egyptian Railways is one of the operators you can book a train ride with. Before confirming your booking, remember to check the date of your travel, class, price and conditions of your fare.
What are the Main Stations of Egyptian Railways?
The main stations covered by Egyptian Railways’s route map include
- Luxor
- Aswan
- Cairo
- Giza
- Sidi Gaber
- Alexandria
- Bashtil Upper Egypt
- Asyut
- Sohag
- Asyut Train Station
What are the Most Popular Routes of Egyptian Railways?
Here are some of the routes offered by Egyptian Railways which enjoy the greatest popularity with travellers:
What are the Train Classes & Prices of Egyptian Railways?
Depending on the length of your trip and your preferences you can choose a first or second class ticket in a sleeper coach for an overnight trip or opt for a hard or soft seat if available. Note that the choice of ticket classes depends both on the route and the length of your trip. Basically, your train may feature first class berths but you will not be able to book one if you are doing just a short two-hour stretch. In general, second class berths are a good choice for longer trips, and soft seats get you covered if your train ride is supposed to take under 4-5 hours.
Pros & Cons of Train Travel
Pros of Train Travel
- The best thing about railway travel is no traffic jams. Even on rush-hour, long weekends or during the high season
- An easy online booking process – you do not need to go to the railway station, which was the case in many places not so long ago!
- Prices for train tickets are usually more affordable compared to airplane tickets yet for certain destinations and trips the total travel time can be almost the same
- While rail travel is obviously slower than air travel, railway stations are often located in the centre of the city which saves you a sack of time getting to/from there while airports are almost always are quite a long way out of the city
- Travelling by night allows you to save on a hotel room and sleep well at the same time – opposite to a night bus where even the sleeping class is a huge compromise
- On certain routes luxury service is available
Cons of Train Travel
- For longer trips a train ride is definitely more time consuming than air journeys
- Trains do ride on schedule but being out of schedule is not unheard of for train travel – and delays can be huge, so if you are planning a connection to your flight, carefully check the time your train arrives at the station and think twice.
- Cleanliness is sometimes an issue with second and third class tickets, and with toilets, too.
- If your train makes a lot of stops, in some cases it is difficult to figure out when to get off as stops are not always clearly announced or marked with the exception of an electronic screen.
Egyptian Railways Company Reviews
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Sep 16, 2026
The train was ok, we arrived well at our destination. The egyptian railway service was excellent, we had no trouble to find the correct track and also getting the hard ticket was no problem. However, its more a train for locals, as a Tourist we felt a bit uncomfortable…
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Jun 13, 2026
Finding the right platform at Cairo station was hard, there were no signs anywhere. The toilets on board were unpleasant and the train was an hour and a half late. I don’t advise anybody to use this method of transport in Egypt
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, May 16, 2026
The 12Go’s subcontractor didnt respond to our email on time. When we arrived the police took us apart and arranged our ticket and send us in the right direction. We were obliged to pay them for their service, we felt not reallu comfortable. When at the platform at Luxor we couldnt read the platform because it was in arabic. The locals (0 tourist on the train) were helpfull, thanks!
The train itself was quite alright, it left only 20 minuts late, the AC worked and it was not that disgusting. However they woke us up 2 times in the middel of the night on a sleeper train) to check our tickets for the second time and pay for the food we bought hours ago…
In the end we were happy everything worked out but I think the bus might be better value for money.
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Train Talgo Second Class, Egyptian Railways, May 8, 2026
The train
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Apr 27, 2026
This was a terrible experience from start to finish. You will receive a confirmation telling you to contact a WhatsApp number at least 10 hours before departure who tell you that you must retrieve your ticket from the police office at the station. This is not easily located. Don’t ask the customer services desk either as they don’t know anything and then point you in the wrong direction to get rid of you. The tourism police when they show up then take you to the office and then of course ask for money once they’ve given you the ticket. Because keeping a pre-booked train ticket in a drawer required a lot of effort. Finding the platform is then a nightmare. Ask for directions and you’ll be pointed in the wrong direction every time. This happened again on the platform where the tourism police pointed me to the wrong end of the train. Then a guy takes my ticket, as in grabs the ticket and takes me to the wrong seat, but tells me to sit there. Of course someone shows up for that seat later and a huge scene unfolds on the train between me, this passenger and the police officer who told me to go to the wrong end of the train. Eventually I’m in a sitting down but decide to go get something to eat. They had small sandwiches in the food car, I only dared eat the cheese one which was stale and I think days old and definitely wasn’t being stored in a fridge when I bought it. Wouldn’t touch the chicken ones for obvious reasons. Furthermore train door was broken so the smell of the toilets and cigarette smoke accompanied the entire 12 hour journey as did the sound of the compartment door constantly slamming due to the movement of the train. If this was the “first class” experience, God only knows what second and third class is. Do yourself a favour and fly, drive, walk if you have to. Avoid avoid avoid Egyptian trains and especially pre-booking them.
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Train Second Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Feb 16, 2026
Toilet very bad. Can smoking in train which is not okay, very smelly.
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Aug 6, 2025
Train trip was ok, but the price charged was $110 & the Egypt Rail ticket was $75. Thus, this company overcharged me. Plus getting a hard copy ticket was a major issue - the mentioned phone number never answered, and the email responses were very slow, then stopped before resolution.
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Train First Class French Express, Egyptian Railways, Jun 12, 2025
Train was 30 minutes late departing. Restrooms disgusting. Other than that? Perfect! 😆
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Train Second Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Jun 8, 2025
Contacted the email and number given to retrieve ticket at train station up to three days prior to departure and neither got back to me. We went to the station 3 hours prior to departure to try and sort things out and we were helped out by ‘tourist help centre’ who told us come back an hour before departure after they had made phone calls. We did so and they gave us our tickets on arrival and looked for money for retrieving tickets which we felt obliged to do so. If contact number/email given us contacted me back, this scenario would be avoided.
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Jun 8, 2025
The restrooms in every car were beyond disgusting. The windows in the cars were so filthy you couldn't see out them! Other passengers smoking between cars, rail employees joined them for a cigarette! Upside? The A/C worked very well.
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, May 11, 2025
Great service and very comfortable trip!
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Sep 25, 2023
I was told to meet a person at the station with the tickets and they were 1 hour and 15 minutes late. The station is not safe and was put in danger waiting around
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Train Third Class Russian Economy, Egyptian Railways, May 28, 2026
L'échange avec l'interface WhatsApp est délicat et on a l'information qu'en dernière minute pour récupérer le ticket de transport : j'ai préféré assurer et j'en ai pris un autre de moi même ...
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Apr 7, 2026
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Train VIP Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Feb 7, 2026
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Jan 27, 2026
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Train Second Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 23, 2025
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 5, 2025
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Train Private Cabin for 2, Egyptian Railways, Nov 3, 2025
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Train First Class French Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 28, 2025
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 17, 2025
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 15, 2025
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 13, 2025
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 12, 2025
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 11, 2025
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 10, 2025
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 4, 2025
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Sep 23, 2025
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Train Second Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Sep 8, 2025
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Train Private Cabin for 2, Egyptian Railways, Aug 9, 2025
Train Third Class French Economy, Egyptian Railways, Jun 9, 2025
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Train VIP Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Jan 7, 2025
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, May 4, 2024
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, May 3, 2024
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Apr 21, 2024
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Apr 20, 2024
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Mar 25, 2024
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Mar 24, 2024
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 30, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 29, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 15, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 14, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 7, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Nov 6, 2023
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 24, 2023
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Train First Class Spanish Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 23, 2023
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Train First Class French Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 2, 2023
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Train First Class French Express, Egyptian Railways, Oct 1, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Sep 30, 2023
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Train First Class Special Express, Egyptian Railways, Sep 29, 2023