Discover our enhanced transport offers
Welcome to the page dedicated to our transport offer and station services, demonstrating the constant improvement in the passenger experience since CAMRAIL took over rail operations.
Our different routes
Between Douala and Yaoundé, a short-distance service (264 km) with 8 daily trains.
Express Train 185 - 186
Douala - Yaounde
The Express Train is made up of 11 cars, including a bar-restaurant, 04 first-class cars, 04 second-class cars, 1 generator van, 1 van dedicated to parcels and luggage. The transport plan for this express train provides for two daily trips from Douala and Yaoundé. With a journey time of 4h45, this new service serves the towns of Edéa, Messondo, Eseka, Makak and Ngoumou, in addition to Douala and Yaoundé.
Train 181 - 184
Mainly semi-direct trains
The Train Express originally operated 1 service per day in each direction, leaving Douala and Yaoundé in the late afternoon (5 p.m.). It currently runs 5 days a week as a Train Express; on the other 2 days, it operates as an omnibus. It originally offered 240 seats per service, with a conventional train comprising 1 first-class car, 2 second-class cars and 1 collector van. It now operates with 2 second-class cars (176 seats) and 1 collector van. When they operate as semi-directs, they respect 16 stops, 5 times a week; when they operate as omnibuses, they respect 42 stops, 2 times a week. In the first case, they link the 2 towns in 8 hours, and in the second case, they do so in 12/13 hours.
Integral omnibus (OM 103 - 104)
Linking the 2 cities in 12 hours, it originally operated 1 service per day in each direction, leaving Douala and Yaoundé at the start of the day (8:30 a.m.) and arriving at its destination at 8:30 p.m. Since 2016, its services have been combined with those of the express. Omnibus trains 103-104 currently run 2 days a week. They offer 176 seats per service, with the trainset comprising 2 passenger carriages and 1 collection van for transporting parcels and baggage. These omnibus trains currently depart at 7.30 a.m. and arrive at the end of the day. They serve all stations and stops on the Douala - Yaoundé section (42 stops). The main function of these trains is to serve landlocked rural areas, enabling them to transport the food products they produce to Douala and/or Yaoundé. At present, the omnibus train offers an average of 176 seats with 2 second-class carriages.
CAMRAIL operates a long-distance service between Yaoundé and Ngaoundéré (620 km) with 4 trains.
Semi-direct train 191-192
Yaoundé - Ngaoundéré
Called the sleeper train, it runs between Yaoundé and Ngaoundéré every day, in both directions. It is scheduled to leave Yaoundé and Ngaoundéré, respectively, at the end of the day (7.50 pm / 7.15 pm), arriving at its destination in the early morning of the following day (8 / 9 am). These trains are semi-direct and serve 17 stations. Trains 191-192 have long offered 951 to 983 seats per service, with 2 first-class cars, 8 second-class cars, 1 sleeper car with 2-bed compartments and 3 to 4 sleepers with 4-bed compartments, a bar-restaurant car and 1 generator van and 1 luggage van. The need to remove CSR cars from service led to a halving of the number of seats offered in 2017, with one trainset offering 429 seats and the other 438.
Train omnibus OM 112 - 113
Bélabo et Ngaoundéré
The omnibus provides 2 services a week in each direction. It serves all stations and stops on the Bélabo - Ngaoundéré section (21 stops). For a long time, it offered 264 seats per service, with a train made up of 3 passenger cars and 2 collection vans carrying food products.
It is served over some 30 km by two omnibus trains: Omnibus between Douala - Mbanga: Train 162-165 and Omnibus between Mbanga - Kumba (30 km).
Omnibus Train 162 - 165
Douala - Mbanga
It originally ran two services a week over 70 km with an 88-seat2nd-class car. The Douala - Mbanga Omnibus reduced its frequencies to 2 trains a month to meet the maintenance needs of the Mbanga - Kumba Omnibus.
Omnibus
Mbanga - Kumba
It provides 3 services per day and per direction, i.e. 6 daily shuttles. It offers 176 seats per service with 22nd-class 88-seater cars and 1 collector van. In 2018, at the request of the authorities, CAMRAIL suspended services on the Mbanga -Kumba route due to the political and social tensions in this part of the country.
