Cheapest€108.14
- Shosholoza Meyl SM236606:307h 19m13:49RedhouseBank
Door to door 8h 3mCO2 32.7 kgChanges 0Refundable
Port Elizabeth to Carletonville train
Trains from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville start at €127.39 and take 8h 3m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Port Elizabeth to Carletonville on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Trains from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville starts at €127.39 and takes 8h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 992 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 8h 3mDoor to door
- 7h 19mMoving
- €127.39 to €252.24From
- 06:30 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 32.7 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 28 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€127.39 to €252.24 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.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €252.24Mon14
- about €207.14Tue15
- about €250.59Wed16
- about €234.64Thu17
- about €209.89Fri18
- about €210.99Sat19
- about €202.19Sun20
- about €144.44Mon21
- about €127.39Tue22
- about €186.79Wed23
- about €186.79Thu24
- about €197.24Fri25
- about €193.39Sat26
- about €180.74Sun27
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026
Lowest CO2€128.49
- Shosholoza Meyl SM243607:304h 10m11:40RedhouseBotshabelo station
- Shosholoza Meyl SM402713:182h 45m16:03Botshabelo stationBank
Changes at Botshabelo, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 9h 17mCO2 32.7 kgChanges 1Refundable
Train operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shosholoza Meyl | €108.14 | 7h 24m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The train gets you into Carletonville. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Carletonville for the night the train gets in
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When to book Port Elizabeth to Carletonville
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €144.9990 days
- €134.5460 days
- €92.1945 days
- €99.8930 days
- €137.2921 days
- €180.7414 days
- €202.197 days
- €250.593 days
- €252.241 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €92.19.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 174 percent. The dearest point is €252.24, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €180.74Sun
- €144.44Mon
- €127.39Tue
- €186.79Wed
- €186.79Thu
- €197.24Fri
- €193.39Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Gqeberha
Rail
- Redhouse
- Sydenham
- North End
Carletonville
Rail
- Bank
- Maizelands
- Oberholzer
What the journey actually 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 992 km against 862 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 Welkom, Klerksdorp, Bloemfontein, Botshabelo. 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 Port Elizabeth at 06:30 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville
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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville take?
The Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville takes 8h 3m door to door, of which 7h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 992 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville cost?
The Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville starts at €127.39 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €130.14. 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville?
1 operators run the Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville: 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville use?
The Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville leaves from Redhouse and arrives at Bank. 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville?
Fares for the Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €92.19. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 174 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville produce?
The Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville produces about 32.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 992 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville?
Operators on the Train from Port Elizabeth to Carletonville publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 3m 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 Port Elizabeth to Carletonville on 13 September 2026: 992 km of route against 862 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €127.39, and 8h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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