Welkom to Westonaria train

Trains from Welkom to Westonaria start at €28.38 and take 2h 35m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Welkom to Westonaria starts at €28.38 and takes 2h 35m door to door, run by 1 operator over 236 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

  • 2h 35mDoor to door
  • 1h 51mMoving
  • €32.24 to €63.04From
  • 06:52 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 7.8 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.

€32.24 to €63.04 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 Welkom to Westonaria 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 €63.04Fri18
  2. about €63.04Sat19
  3. about €49.84Sun20
  4. about €44.34Mon21
  5. about €39.39Tue22
  6. about €59.19Wed23
  7. about €45.99Thu24
  8. about €51.49Fri25
  9. about €49.84Sat26
  10. about €44.34Sun27
  11. about €32.24Mon28
  12. about €37.19Tue29
  13. about €40.49Wed30
  14. about €36.09Thu1

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€28.38
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM643107:301h 15m08:45Welkom stationPotchefstroom station
  2. Shosholoza Meyl SM276010:2840m11:08Potchefstroom stationWestonaria

Changes at Potchefstroom, with 103 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 4h 22mCO2 8.2 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€28.39
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM762106:521h 51m08:43Welkom stationWestonaria

Door to door 2h 35mCO2 7.8 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€28.392h 24m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Westonaria for the night the train gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Welkom to Westonaria

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

  1. €30.5990 days
  2. €27.8460 days
  3. €29.4945 days
  4. €32.2430 days
  5. €36.0921 days
  6. €36.0914 days
  7. €45.997 days
  8. €49.843 days
  9. €63.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.84.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 126 percent. The dearest point is €63.04, 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. €44.34Sun
  2. €32.24Mon
  3. €37.19Tue
  4. €40.49Wed
  5. €36.09Thu
  6. €51.49Fri
  7. €49.84Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Westonaria

Rail
  • Westonaria
  • Goudryk
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 236 km against 205 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 Vereeniging, Klerksdorp, Vanderbijlpark, Potchefstroom. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Welkom 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 Welkom to Westonaria

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 Welkom to Westonaria take?

The Train from Welkom to Westonaria takes 2h 35m door to door, of which 1h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 236 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 Welkom to Westonaria cost?

The Train from Welkom to Westonaria starts at €28.38 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €30.04. 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 Welkom to Westonaria?

1 operators run the Train from Welkom to Westonaria: 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 Welkom to Westonaria use?

The Train from Welkom to Westonaria leaves from Welkom station and arrives at Westonaria. 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 Welkom to Westonaria?

Fares for the Train from Welkom to Westonaria bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 126 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Welkom to Westonaria produce?

The Train from Welkom to Westonaria produces about 7.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 236 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 Welkom to Westonaria?

Operators on the Train from Welkom to Westonaria publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 35m 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 Welkom to Westonaria on 17 September 2026: 236 km of route against 205 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €28.38, and 2h 35m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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