George to Fort Beaufort train

Trains from George to Fort Beaufort start at €52.59 and take 4h 24m at their fastest.

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The Trains from George to Fort Beaufort starts at €52.59 and takes 4h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 471 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 4h 24mDoor to door
  • 3h 40mMoving
  • €62.49 to €124.09From
  • 06:52 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 15.5 kgCO2

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

€62.49 to €124.09 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 trip

Bookaway lists departures for George to Fort Beaufort 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 €124.09Fri18
  2. about €124.09Sat19
  3. about €97.69Sun20
  4. about €86.69Mon21
  5. about €76.79Tue22
  6. about €115.84Wed23
  7. about €89.99Thu24
  8. about €89.99Fri25
  9. about €97.69Sat26
  10. about €86.69Sun27
  11. about €62.49Mon28
  12. about €72.39Tue29
  13. about €78.44Wed30
  14. about €71.29Thu1

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 October 6, 2026

Cheapest€52.59
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM867907:302h 26m09:56George railway stationDe Mist
  2. Shosholoza Meyl SM879211:271h 30m12:57De MistFort Beaufort station

Changes at Kariega, with 91 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 11mCO2 16.3 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€54.24
  1. Shosholoza Meyl SM215206:523h 40m10:32George railway stationFort Beaufort station

Door to door 4h 24mCO2 15.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail 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€54.243h 58m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Fort Beaufort for the night the train gets in

Filter by neighborhood and by nightly price, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a cab.

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Booking window

When to book George to Fort Beaufort

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

  1. €58.6490 days
  2. €52.0460 days
  3. €56.4445 days
  4. €61.3930 days
  5. €69.6421 days
  6. €71.2914 days
  7. €89.997 days
  8. €97.693 days
  9. €124.091 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €52.04.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 138 percent. The most expensive point is €124.09, 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. €86.69Sun
  2. €62.49Mon
  3. €72.39Tue
  4. €78.44Wed
  5. €71.29Thu
  6. €89.99Fri
  7. €97.69Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

George

Rail
  • George railway station
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 471 km against 409 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 Grahamstown, Kariega, Oudtshoorn, Gqeberha. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 George 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 George to Fort Beaufort

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 George to Fort Beaufort take?

The Train from George to Fort Beaufort takes 4h 24m door to door, of which 3h 40m is spent moving. The route runs 471 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 George to Fort Beaufort cost?

The Train from George to Fort Beaufort starts at €52.59 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €55.34. 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 George to Fort Beaufort?

1 operators run the Train from George to Fort Beaufort: 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 George to Fort Beaufort use?

The Train from George to Fort Beaufort leaves from George railway station and arrives at Fort Beaufort 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 George to Fort Beaufort?

Fares for the Train from George to Fort Beaufort bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €52.04. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 138 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from George to Fort Beaufort produce?

The Train from George to Fort Beaufort produces about 15.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 471 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from George to Fort Beaufort?

Operators on the Train from George to Fort Beaufort publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 24m 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 George to Fort Beaufort on September 17, 2026: 471 km of route against 409 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €52.59, and 4h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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