Springs to Durban train

Trains from Springs to Durban start at €58.64 and take 4h 33m at their fastest.

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Skyline of Durban, South Africa, from helicopter. Vetchies pier. The red building in the middle ist Addington Hospital, followed by the beachfront.

The Trains from Springs to Durban starts at €58.64 and takes 4h 33m door to door, run by 1 operator over 548 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

  • 4h 33mDoor to door
  • 3h 49mMoving
  • €72.39 to €163.14From
  • 06:52 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 18.1 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.

€72.39 to €163.14 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 Springs to Durban 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 €163.14Fri18
  2. about €144.44Sat19
  3. about €139.49Sun20
  4. about €100.44Mon21
  5. about €88.89Tue22
  6. about €128.49Wed23
  7. about €129.59Thu24
  8. about €95.49Fri25
  9. about €108.14Sat26
  10. about €100.99Sun27
  11. about €72.39Mon28
  12. about €83.39Tue29
  13. about €89.99Wed30
  14. about €93.84Thu1

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€58.64
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM153307:302h 40m10:10SpringsLadysmith station
  2. Shosholoza Meyl SM683811:131h 44m12:57Ladysmith stationDurban railway station

Changes at Ladysmith, with 63 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 11mCO2 18.2 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€63.04
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM434706:523h 49m10:41SpringsDurban railway station

Door to door 4h 33mCO2 18.1 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€63.044h 28m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Durban for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Durban railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Springs to Durban

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

  1. €65.2490 days
  2. €57.5460 days
  3. €65.7945 days
  4. €63.0430 days
  5. €80.6421 days
  6. €93.8414 days
  7. €129.597 days
  8. €139.493 days
  9. €163.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €57.54.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 184 percent. The dearest point is €163.14, 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. €100.99Sun
  2. €72.39Mon
  3. €83.39Tue
  4. €89.99Wed
  5. €93.84Thu
  6. €95.49Fri
  7. €108.14Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Springs

Rail
  • Springs
  • New Era
  • Selpark

Durban

Rail
  • Durban railway station
  • Avoca
  • Wests
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 548 km against 477 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 Pietermaritzburg, eMbalenhle, Ladysmith, Newcastle. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 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 Springs 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 Springs to Durban

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 Springs to Durban take?

The Train from Springs to Durban takes 4h 33m door to door, of which 3h 49m is spent moving. The route runs 548 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 Springs to Durban cost?

The Train from Springs to Durban starts at €58.64 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €60.83. 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 Springs to Durban?

1 operators run the Train from Springs to Durban: 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 Springs to Durban use?

The Train from Springs to Durban leaves from Springs and arrives at Durban railway station. 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 Springs to Durban?

Fares for the Train from Springs to Durban bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €57.54. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 184 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Train from Springs to Durban produces about 18.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 548 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 Springs to Durban?

Operators on the Train from Springs to Durban publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 33m 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 Springs to Durban on 17 September 2026: 548 km of route against 477 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €58.64, and 4h 33m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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