Durban to Boksburg train

Trains from Durban to Boksburg start at €60.84 and take 5h 4m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Durban to Boksburg starts at €60.84 and takes 5h 4m door to door, run by 1 operator over 561 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 4mDoor to door
  • 4h 20mMoving
  • €74.04 to €147.74From
  • 06:52 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 18.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€74.04 to €147.74 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Shosholoza Meyl runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Durban to Boksburg on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €142.79Fri18
  2. about €147.74Sat19
  3. about €116.39Sun20
  4. about €102.64Mon21
  5. about €90.54Tue22
  6. about €130.69Wed23
  7. about €106.49Thu24
  8. about €96.59Fri25
  9. about €111.44Sat26
  10. about €103.19Sun27
  11. about €74.04Mon28
  12. about €85.59Tue29
  13. about €93.29Wed30
  14. about €80.09Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€60.84
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM736507:301h 46m09:16Durban railway stationLadysmith station
  2. Shosholoza Meyl SM880710:102h 29m12:39Ladysmith stationBoksburg East

Changes at Ladysmith, with 54 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 5h 53mCO2 18.6 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€64.69
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM658806:524h 20m11:12Durban railway stationBoksburg East

Door to door 5h 4mCO2 18.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Shosholoza Meyl€64.694h 33m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

The train gets you into Boksburg. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Boksburg for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Boksburg East and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Durban to Boksburg

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €67.4490 days
  2. €58.6460 days
  3. €66.8945 days
  4. €63.5930 days
  5. €82.8421 days
  6. €80.0914 days
  7. €106.497 days
  8. €116.393 days
  9. €142.791 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €58.64.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 144 percent. The dearest point is €142.79, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €103.19Sun
  2. €74.04Mon
  3. €85.59Tue
  4. €93.29Wed
  5. €82.84Thu
  6. €96.59Fri
  7. €111.44Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Durban

Rail
  • Durban railway station
  • Avoca
  • Wests

Boksburg

Rail
  • Boksburg East
  • Dunswart
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 561 km against 488 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Ladysmith, Newcastle, Pietermaritzburg, eMbalenhle. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Durban at 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Durban to Boksburg

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Durban to Boksburg take?

The Train from Durban to Boksburg takes 5h 4m door to door, of which 4h 20m is spent moving. The route runs 561 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Durban to Boksburg cost?

The Train from Durban to Boksburg starts at €60.84 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €60.84. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Durban to Boksburg?

1 operators run the Train from Durban to Boksburg: Shosholoza Meyl. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Durban to Boksburg use?

The Train from Durban to Boksburg leaves from Durban railway station and arrives at Boksburg East. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Durban to Boksburg?

Fares for the Train from Durban to Boksburg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €58.64. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 144 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Durban to Boksburg produce?

The Train from Durban to Boksburg produces about 18.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 561 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Durban to Boksburg?

Operators on the Train from Durban to Boksburg publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 4m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Durban to Boksburg on 17 September 2026: 561 km of route against 488 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €60.84, and 5h 4m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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